What a Decade of ‘R’ Sound Science Taught Us About the Gap Between Research and Clinical Practice in Speech Therapy

Not exactly. Even though the app was freely available and supported by rigorous research, it mostly lived in research settings. Scientific publications aren’t the most efficient way to get the word out to busy clinicians. When SLPs did try the app, some of them loved it — but others couldn’t get the hang of it and went back to old strategies. Scientific evidence lost out to practical reality: in a caseload crammed with back-to-back sessions, clinicians had no bandwidth for a tool that wasn’t immediately intuitive.