RESEARCH TO PRACTICE (AND BACK AGAIN) IN SPEECH-LANGUAGE INTERVENTION

Three theses are developed in this article. First, although they share the common goal of striving toward the best intervention services pos sible, clinical practice and experimental intervention research are di fferent in fundamental and practically significant ways. Second, nonex perimental research, some of which can be implemented by clinicians, p rovides an essential bridge between experimental investigation and cli nical application. Third, professional and academic bodies governing s peech-language pathology must take steps to ensure that speech-languag e professionals in research and clinical practice work in a complement ary manner to develop and test the most effective intervention methods possible.