Non-attendance is influenced by wait times, season and the reason for referral. Location (urban versus rural), referral source, wait times and season are factors related to non-engagement with SLT services. Targeted policies to improve efficiency and effectiveness of SLT services could be designed around these study findings.
The authors would like to thank members of COST Action IS0804 "Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment" (www.bi-sli.org) for sharing their ideas and insights regarding LITMUS based SRep tasks. We acknowledge Theodoros Marinis for providing us with the School-Age Sentence Imitation Test-E32. We would also like to thank Sarah-Ann Muckley, Áine McKeown and Rosa Nutty who helped designing sentences for the Irish SRep task and Edward Jones who assisted in recording the sentences.Finally, we would like to thank three anonymous reviewers whose comments significantly improved the manuscript.
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