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Evidence-Based Practices Are Not Reformulated Best Practices

A Response to Martindale's "Children With Significant Hearing Loss: Learning to Listen, Talk, and Read—Evidence-Based Best Practices"

University of Detroit, Michigan

Cheri Williams

University of Cincinnati, Ohio

Communication Disorders Quarterly's special series on evidence-based practices and, specifically, Martindale's article on evidence-based practices in learning to listen, talk, and read among children with significant hearing loss appear to confuse best practices with evidence-based practices and, perhaps more serious, offer little evidence for either. Although the case may be made that evidence-based practices are best practices, best practices are not evidence-based practices unless identified through evaluation of research with criteria agreed on by the research community.

Key Words: deaf • hard of hearing • exceptionalities • evidence-based practices • literacy

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