Now more than ever, speech clinicians are being required to justify the effectiveness of their work by showing results. There are different ways to measure outcomes. For example, outcomes may be measured by testing to determine if change has occurred regarding clinical goals, or by comparing the cost of the treatment to the benefit of the treatment to determine if the treatment was economically sound. Another type of measure is subjective outcomes, such as client satisfaction. Subjective outcomes are difficult to define and measure and few studies of this type have been reported in the literature. Because clinical outcome is dependent, at least to some extent, on client satisfaction (Williams, 1994), and because few studies have been reported in the literature regarding client satisfaction with speech and language services, this area became the focus of the current study. This study sought to answer the following questions: (a) Did the parents think their child benefrtted from the articulation intervention services received at the clinic? and (b) What were parents' attitudes regarding the clinical atmosphere and staff? The Consumer Satisfaction Measure of the American SpeechLanguage- Hearing Association (ASHA) was used in this study because it is broad in scope and contains statements relating to the research questions of the current study. Answers to the research questions were derived from the responses to the survey that was mailed to the parents of 86 children who had received articulation services from the PSU Speech and Hearing Clinic. Ninety-five percent of the parental responses regarding whether parents felt that their children benefited from services obtained at the PSU Speech and Hearing Clinic were positive, indicating that parents were satisfied with the services received. Ninety-one percent of the parental responses regarding parent's attitudes toward the clinical atmosphere and staff were positive. It appears that parents hold favorable views regarding the clinical atmosphere and staff and that they were satisfied with the services their children received at the PSU Speech and Hearing Clinic.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:pdx.edu/oai:pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu:open_access_etds-6233 |
| Date | 18 March 1996 |
| Creators | Murphy, Janet Ann |
| Publisher | PDXScholar |
| Source Sets | Portland State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Dissertations and Theses |
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