In a new podcast for the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Dr Emma Pagnamenta and Dr Yvonne Wren discuss their co-authored JCPP Advances paper ‘Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties associated with persistent speech disorder in children: a prospective population study’ (https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12126).
Discussion points include:
- A definition of Persistent Speech Disorder.
- Why Emma and Yvonne chose to focus on Speech Sound Disorder in this research.
- What the four core questions are that drove the research.
- What was unique about how they went about the study.
- Insight into what the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and the Short Moods and Feelings Questionnaire are and how they were used in the study.
- Advice for practitioners, and for parents and carers.
- The policy implications and what needs to change at policy level to see an improvement in outcomes for young people with persistent speech disorders.