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The first paper from the main study of my PhD is now published in @IJLCD! We used video-reflexive ethnography to explore engagement with families & speech-language pathologists working together in Australian early Rx services. Here are some key points. 1/8 https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12609
With permission, we video-recorded up to 3 intervention appointments for each of our 21 participating SLP-family dyads. Then we played short segments of participants' own videos back to them in individual interviews and invited them to reflect on the interactions captured. 2/8
Participants told us that engagement was not a simple ‘black and white’ term, and both SLP and family participants described how families may have ‘different levels of engagement’ in various aspects of intervention. More about this in the next tweet! 3/8
Results showed that a family’s unique profile of engagement may be made up of the way they 1) attend appointments & come into the room; 2) actively participate in sessions; 3) continue to actively participate outside sessions; 4) have open/honest communication with the SLP. 4/8
Here’s a visual representation of how a family’s 'unique profile of engagement' in early speech-language pathology intervention might be conceptualised, based on what our participants told us (though there may be other aspects to consider as well). https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12609 5/8
We hope that sharing the findings of this study may contribute some helpful language to help us move beyond using blanket statements about *whether or not* families are engaged, to instead describing in detail *how* families are uniquely engaged in early intervention. 6/8
How do these findings compare with your experiences of working with families #SLPs #SLTs? Could mapping out a family's unique profile of engagement provide new opportunities to work together? (We share some of our thoughts in the Clinical Implications section of the article). 7/8
Finally, if you now find yourself wondering about the factors that underpin the ways families engage in Rx over time (like we did!), you might like to know that we have a companion paper in preparation to explore the insight our participants shared about that very thing! 8/8
