You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output.
Click here to find out more.
Mendeley readers
| Title |
A comparison of rural speech-language pathologists' and residents' access to and attitudes towards the use of technology for speech-language pathology service delivery
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Advances in Speech Language Pathology, March 2010
|
| DOI | 10.3109/17549500903456607 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Carolyn Dunkley, Lydelle Pattie, Linda Wilson, Lindy McAllister |
| Abstract |
This paper reports results and implications of two related studies which investigated (a) access of residents and speech-language pathologists (SLPs) of rural Australia to information and communication technologies (ICT) and (b) their attitudes towards the use of ICT for delivery of speech-language pathology services. Both studies used mail out questionnaires, followed by interviews with a subset of those who completed the questionnaires. Data were obtained from 43 questionnaires from rural residents and 10 interviews with a subset of those residents, and from questionnaires returned by 49 SLPs and 4 interviews with a subset of those SLPs. Results show a mismatch between rural residents' and SLPs' access to and attitudes towards use of ICT for speech-language pathology service delivery. Rural residents had better access and more positive attitudes to the use of ICT for speech-language pathology service delivery than expected by SLPs. The results of this study have important implications for education and professional development of SLPs and for research into the use of ICT for telespeech-language pathology. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 93 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 1 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 90 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 16 | 17% |
| Researcher | 14 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 16 | 17% |
| Unknown | 26 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 21 | 23% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 14% |
| Social Sciences | 11 | 12% |
| Linguistics | 5 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 14 | 15% |
| Unknown | 25 | 27% |