The research lab in the Communicative Disorders and Sciences Department at the University at Buffalo is looking for speech-language pathologists who treat people with Parkinson’s disease to participate in an online survey. Specifically, this study is investigating speech-language pathologists’ experiences, perceptions, and opinions of the use of speech amplification technology for use with clients with Parkinson’s disease. We are interested in hearing from all S-LPs who meet our inclusion criteria (below), regardless of your direct experience with speech amplification technology.

You are eligible to participate if you:

• are over the age of 18
• consider English to be your primary language
• are a registered speech-language pathologist in either the United States or Canada
• have at least 2 years of experience treating clients with Parkinson’s disease.

The survey is expected to take 15 to 20 minutes and will include short answer, multiple choice, and open-ended questions. You will also be asked if you would like to be contacted in the future to help us recruit for a related study that will include individuals with Parkinson’s disease or parkinsonism who have experience using speech amplification devices. This research has been approved by the Institutional Review board at the University at Buffalo.

 

You may reach the IRB at (716) 888-4888 or email ub-irb@buffalo.edu if you have any concerns.

Participants will be entered to win one of twenty $25 Amazon Gift Cards.

You can access the survey here 

If you have questions, please email Dr. Thea Knowles at casa.lab.ub@gmail.com

 

In Canada, autistic children may receive different therapies, like occupational therapy, speech-language pathology services, physical therapy, or applied behavior analysis-based therapies. While the use of some of these therapies is common, there is limited evidence about how these therapies are perceived by stakeholders.  Using an online survey, we are exploring the perspectives autistic individuals, parents of autistic individuals and clinicians on the acceptability of these specific therapies. We will be inviting autistic individuals, parents of autistic individuals, and clinicians who work with autistic children (e.g., occupational therapists, behavioral therapists, physical therapists, speech language pathologists, family physicians, developmental pediatricians, psychologists, nurse practitioners, social workers) to participate in this survey.

The survey is open between January 27th and February 24th, 2022. The survey is estimated to take between 10-30 minutes to complete, with more time needed if the participant’s responses to the written questions are longer or they have multiple autistic people in their immediate family.
 

Click here to complete the survey

 

Are you a physiotherapist, occupational therapist or speech language pathologist?  

Do you work in Canada? Are you interested in telerehabilitation?  
 

Participate in the T-Pivot study  

This study looks at the implementation of telerehabilitation in Canada in your practice/profession. This study will ask you to give information about your experiences with telerehabilitation, your plans for integrating it into your practice, as well as your training and support needs.

You will be asked to complete, on two occasions, a 20-minute online questionnaire. You may also be invited to participate in a focus group, if you are interested.  
 

TO PARTICIPATE:

Please click on the following link to complete the online survey:  https://redcap.link/tpivot-eng 

If you have any questions about the project, please contact Ms. Karen Hurtubise: karen.hurtubise@usherbrooke.ca  

 

 

Credit: Department of Surgery, University of Calgary & O’Brien Institute for Public Health

We are currently experiencing a global pneumonia pandemic lacking any recent precedent, caused by SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). To date, it has infected over 167,600,000 persons worldwide. Drastic measures have been taken by governments and public health officials in an attempt to decrease the spread of this infection. These measures have included restrictions on border crossing, airline travel, work, and gathering of people for any reason. Further, medical and surgical care pathways during the pandemic have been variably. Otolaryngology-head and neck surgery (OHNS) is considered a high-risk setting for the possible transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection and safer surgical pathways are imperative while maintaining services for those at need. The impact of both the infection and the responses taken may be affecting persons working in high-risk settings as OHNS.

As the impact of the infection and the responses to it may be significant in high-risk surgical settings as OHNS and be far-reaching, we aim to explore these measures on the health of individuals working in these settings.

We are inviting any English-speaking health care provider working in the OHNS setting to complete this survey on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their lives. If you volunteer to participate in this study, you will be asked to complete an online, anonymous survey. The survey takes approximately 15-20 minutes to complete, depending on certain responses which may have follow-up questions. An email address can be left optionally if you are interested in being contacted for a follow-up interview and this data will be stored separate to your survey responses to ensure that there is no identifying information linked and all data will be analyzed in aggregate. 

 

To learn more and to complete the survey, click here