Citation/Abstract

Across fields, studies investigating the facilitators and barriers of EBP have been completed. There are a limited number of studies investigating facilitators and barriers regarding EBP within the Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) literature, and none to date investigating CSD student perceptions. The primary aim of this study was to examine and compare the perceptions of facilitators and barriers about EBP amongst graduate students in speech-language pathology and other allied health care training programs. The data collected raised various questions regarding the training of students and how it affects their attitudes towards EBP. Common barriers to EBP included lack of time and lack of confidence with decreased exposure. The second aim of this study was to investigate the absence or presence of disconnect in the area of EBP between the university and work settings. To do this, a systematic review of electronic media about SLP career recruitment was completed. A startling 1% of job postings reviewed included EBP key words, which pointed to disconnect regarding EBP between university training and employment settings.