Symposium

Cross-Cutting

Brain Injury

Stroke

Clinical Research Methodology: Lessons Learned from Experts in the Field of Aphasia (825397)

Presenter(s)

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  Leora R. Cherney, PhD, CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS, FACRM

  Coleman Foundation Chair and Scientific Chair, Think and Speak Lab
  Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
  Chicago, Illinois

  Presentation Slides Handouts Presentation + Audio
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  Anastasia M. Raymer, PhD

  Professor of Communication Disorders
  Old Dominion University
  Virginia Beach, Virginia
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  Jaime Lee, PhD, CCC-SLP

  Assistant Professor
  James Madison University
  Harrisonburg, Virginia

Rehabilitation research encompasses many different research methods. This session provides foundational information about the design and conduct of methodologies that can be rigorously applied to answer clinical research questions. These include systematic reviews, single-case experimental studies, and clinical trials. Using examples primarily from their own work, three experts from the field of aphasia discuss lessons they learned while using these approaches. They offer some tips that they have discovered along the way as well as discuss pitfalls to avoid. Their examples will be supplemented with other recent compelling clinical studies in the area of aphasia research. Although this symposium offers examples from aphasia research, the information will be relevant to rehabilitation research in general.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the stages of a systematic review
• Discuss the characteristics of single case experimental research
• Discuss the reporting guidelines for randomized clinical trials
• Identify studies in the field of aphasia research that illustrate systematic reviews, single case experimental research, and randomized clinical trials.