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How do you know that an interactive book reading treatment is working?
What is it about?
In evidence-based practice, speech-language pathologists are supposed to select treatment approaches that have been shown to be effective through research and then monitor whether a child does well with the treatment. What does it mean to do well? What does successful learning look like? This article takes a detailed look at learning from a clinical trial of interactive book reading and identifies cut-off scores for treatment progress at different points during treatment. It further examines what aspect of word learning may be difficult for a child and offers ideas about how the treatment could be modified to improve learning if a clinician observed that same profile.
Why is it important?
Monitoring the success of treatment and modifying treatments that are not fostering success is a crucial component to evidence-based practice but minimal guidance is provided to clinicians about what criteria to use to define success. This article remedies this research to practice gap for an interactive book reading treatment.