2106V - Closing the Research-to-Practice Gap: Incorporating Implementation Science Into Your Work

It takes 17 years for effective treatments to move from research to clinical practice. How can researchers and clinicians work collaboratively to more quickly improve the lives of persons living with communication challenges? Implementation science, the study and use of methods and strategies to facilitate the uptake of best practices into regular use by practitioners and policymakers, is one potential route. In this session, three speakers will share how they’ve incorporated principles of implementation science into their work and the benefits of doing so. At the end of this session, audience members will be able to map their own path to incorporating implementation science into their own work.