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Maria, Jannatul Mawa |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2025-07-21T08:20:22Z |
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dc.date.available |
2025-07-21T08:20:22Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2024-02-15 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Includes bibliographical references (40-50 p) |
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http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1169 |
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dc.description |
This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Speech and Language Therapy, Bangladesh Health Professions Institute, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
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dc.description.abstract |
Speech and language therapists, often known as SLTs, are responsible for treating a wide
variety of patients who suffer from a variety of communication and swallowing difficulties.
In the management of problems that occur as a result of neurological illnesses other
medical concerns, their competence is absolutely essential. SLT play an important role to
work with the clients and provide supports to them and their caregiver or patients’ family
members.
This research aims to determine the adult client accessing the Speech and Language
Therapy Services from a Specialized Hospital (2020-2024). Under a quantitative study
design, cross sectional retroactive descriptive survey was applied considering the purpose
and objective in this study. Purposive sampling method was used and sample sizes were
4080. Data was collected from Patient's previous file during the month of June 2020 to
June 2024 and was analyzed by using descriptive statistical analysis method. In this study,
Problems with speech and language are more prevalent in male adults than in female adults,
and the age group that experiences them the most frequently is those between the ages of
46 and 55. The majority of the individuals had a stroke, and the majority of the people had
experienced the beginning of illness between 0 and 9 months previously. In excess of
55.2% of the individuals suffered from dysarthria. In addition, aphasia is rather frequent in
adults. When compared to other mixed categories of speech and language challenges,
dysarthria ē dysphagia are the most prevalent types of speech and language issues. For the
purpose of evaluating the impact of speech and language treatment and investigating the
diversity in outcomes, the established outcome of the data set can be utilized.
Keywords: Speech and Language therapy, Adult, Specialized hospital. |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
Bangladesh Health Professions Institute, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
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dc.subject |
Speech and Language therapy |
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dc.subject |
Adult |
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dc.subject |
Specialized hospital. |
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dc.title |
“Epidemiology of the adult client accessing the speech and language therapy services from a specialized hospital (2020-2024)” |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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