The Importance of Listening to the Views of Clients

The Living with Dysarthria group for post‐stroke dysarthria: the participant voice

“…Those who have experienced an intervention are uniquely placed to provide opinions as to its worth, and measuring patients’ experience is an integral part of health care regulation and improvement (Kings Fund ). Opinions expressed are likely to relate to the activity and participation dimensions of health and disability (World Health Organization ), so facilitating the provision of management which is relevant to life and its quality (Rautakoski ).…”

“…Exploring the treatment experience of people who have communication disorders brings special challenges, which to some extent may explain the limited reporting of patients’ views of the interventions they receive. Linguistic and intelligibility limitations may necessitate modifications to standard presentation and reporting methods, such as multimodal presentation, prompts and the use of skilled data collectors (Rautakoski ).…”