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Participants engage in a question and answer session
during the 2009 ANCDS Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
Founded in 1983, ANCDS is a group of professionals interested in encouraging the highest quality of life for adults and children with neurologic communication disorders. The purposes of the ANCDS are professional, clinical, educational, scientific, and charitable.
What is Evidence-Based Practice?
For almost ten years, ANCDS has taken a leadership role in the development of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPG) as a method to:
- Reduce variation in practice
- Systemize quality of care
- Maximize use of demonstrably effective techniques
- Facilitate learning
- Stimulate research
- Improve accountability in the diagnosis and treatment of neurologic communication disorders
The ANCDS Mission
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Promote quality service to persons with neurologic communication disorders by developing training guidelines for preparation of speech-language pathologists for clinical practice with this population, developing standards for clinical practice of speech-language pathologists with this population, and to develop the standards and provide the means to certify clinical specialists in this area of practice.
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Promote state-of-the art education of practitioners in neurologic communication disorders.
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Promote exchange of information and ideas among its members.
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Promote research that contributes to better understanding and management of neurologic communication disorders.
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Provide leadership in the development of clinical expertise in neurologic communication disorders.
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Establish and support liaison with related professional organizations.
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