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Published online October 15, 2009
Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 2009; doi:10.1044/0161-1461(2009/08-0051)

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 2010;41:44.

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The National Outcomes Measurement System for Pediatric Speech-Language Pathology

Robert Mullen
Tracy Schooling
ASHA, Rockville, MD

Purpose: The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's (ASHA's) National Outcomes Measurement System (NOMS) was developed in the late 1990s. The primary purpose was to serve as a source of data for speech-language pathologists (SLPs), who found themselves called upon to provide empirical evidence of the functional outcomes associated with their clinical services for child and adult patients exhibiting various speech-language pathologies. The present discourse focuses on data collected in school settings from Pre-Kindergarten NOMS and K-12 Schools NOMS. This initial account provides the background with respect to how the data collection systems were developed and the data were collected as well as an overview of the information contained in these databases.

Methods: ASHA's Functional Communication Measures (FCMs) were used to describe the disorder-specific communicative dysfunction(s) for each student. These data were obtained at the initiation of a child's speech-language pathology services and again at the time of discharge from these treatments by the SLP.

Results: As of December 2007, data on more than 14,000 K-12 students and 2000 preschool students had been reported from SLPs working in school settings to these two NOMS components.

Discussion: The availability of these data has proven to be a very valuable tool with respect to the efforts of school-based SLPs and administrators to document the beneficial impact of speech-language pathology services in school settings.

KEY WORDS: Treatment outcomes, school-age children, preschool children, speech-language pathologists


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