288 Pages
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Psychology Press
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Psychology Press
288 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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Speech and language pathologists, like all professionals who claim to be scientific in their practice, make a public commitment to operate on the basis of knowledge derived in accordance with sound scientific standards. Yet students in communication disorders are given relatively little grounding in the fundamentals of science; indeed, they often receive implicit encouragement to rely on clinical... Read more
Contents: Preface. Introduction. Science and Pseudoscience. Arguments. Discovering Knowledge. Scientific Description and Explanation. Models, Hypotheses, Theories, and Laws. The Scientific Method. Chance, Probability, and Sampling. Describing and Measuring Events. Types of Research. The Scientific Clinician. Efficacy of Interventions. A Clinician's Guide: Evaluating the Evaluations. The Art and Science of Intervention.
Biography
Carmel Lum
"...attempts to make explicit the meaning of science as guiding philosophy providing standards for determining truth knowledge or evidence in clinical practice. It is written specifically for practitioners in speech language pathology."
—Eric Clearinghouse"Lum is to be applauded for the steps she takes in this volume to trace an applied discipline to its scientific roots and to methods that will allow it a scientifically respectable future."
—Contemporary Psychology APA REVIEW OF BOOKS
