MISLToe_SSD Phase 2 England

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Maximising the Impact of Speech and Language Therapy for children with Speech Sound Disorder Phase 2 (MISLToe_SSD-2): A feasibility study of collection of the Core Outcome Set

• IRAS ID

  338532

• Contact name

  Sam Burr

• Contact email

  sburr@cardiffmet.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  North Bristol NHS Trust

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 5 months, 28 days

• Research summary

  Aim:
  The purpose of this study is to find out if we can collect consistent information about the impact of NHS speech and language therapy for children who have difficulties with their speech. If we can, then a follow-on study will collect data from 20 NHS services and use that to determine which is the best way to provide speech and language therapy for children with speech problems.

  Background:
  Every year around 50,000 children with speech problems are referred to NHS speech and language therapy.
  The therapy these children receive varies and we do not yet know what works best. In the preparatory work for
  this study, we worked with speech and language therapists, young people, parents, and carers to develop a
  Core Outcome Set. This is an agreed list of things to measure before and after therapy to show what changes have taken place in a child’s speech. It includes the number of sounds that the child uses correctly and parent/carer views on how easy they are to understand. Collecting this data from a large number of children will enable us to work out which types of therapy work best for different children.

  Design and methods:
  We will develop a process for the Core Outcome Set data to be collected using NHS electronic records systems.
  We will also meet with speech and language therapists from five NHS services to discuss what might make it difficult for them to collect the data as well as what would make it easier. We will also start the process of collecting the data from these five services to determine if it would be feasible to collect this data on a large number of children (this is the work we would do in the follow-on study).

• REC name

  West of Scotland REC 5

• REC reference

  25/WS/0194

• Date of REC Opinion

  10 Dec 2025

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion