Lum, Carmel.

Scientific thinking in speech and language therapy / Carmel Lum. - Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, c2002. - xxii, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-243) and index.

List of tables // List of figures // A note to the reader and lecturer // Preface // Acknowledgements // Introduction // Science and pseudoscience // Arguments // Discovering knowledge // Scientific description and explanation // Models,hypotheses, theories and laws // The scientific method // Chance, probability and sampling // Describing and measuring events // Types of research // The scientific clinician // Efficacy of intervention // A clinician's guide : evaluating the evaluation // The art and science of intervention // Index //

080584029X (alk. paper)

2001040471


Speech therapy--Research--Methodology.
Science--Methodology.

RC428 / .L86 2002

616.855 06 LUM