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November 2024

A new version of the TOM User Guide is now due to be published early in 2025. This will include updates to some existing scales and also newly developed scales. Plans are underway to update the ROOT to reflect updates and to add new scales. In the meantime, you can check the expected changes in this list.

Have you seen our social media posts using your ROOT data to help raise awareness of speech and language therapy? If you record data for children using the developmental language disorder scale, you might be interested in this quick ‘how to’ for comparing your own data to the statistics we found for DLD awareness day.

Don't forget that there are a number of additional fields which services can ‘opt into’ on ROOT, including new fields, designed to help services with monitoring and identifying inequalities. Services can also create their own fields, for example to record local teams or pathways. Find out more about collecting additional data fields here.

Come along to our next ROOT drop-in on Tuesday 19 November 1-2pm. Whatever stage of your ROOT journey, you can meet the team, ask questions and learn more.

We are here to help with any issues and always want to hear your feedback: click the yellow ‘Leave Feedback’ button at the bottom of any page or email us on root@rcslt.org

About the RCSLT Online Outcome Tool (ROOT)

The ROOT supports speech and language therapists (SLTs) with collecting and collating Therapy Outcome Measures (TOMs) (Enderby and John, 2015; 2019) and generating reports. The reports generated by the ROOT can be used by SLTs to inform clinical decision-making, drive quality improvement and demonstrate the impact of speech and language therapy. More information is provided below, or you can contact root@rcslt.org.

Therapy Outcome Measures for Rehabilitation Professionals

Pamela Enderby and Alexandra John

The Therapy Outcome Measure (TOM) allows professionals from many disciplines working in health, social care and education to describe the relative abilities and difficulties of a patient/client in the four domains of impairment, activity, participation and wellbeing in order to monitor changes over time. TOM has been rigorously tested for reliability and clinical validity. It is quick and simple to use, taking just a few minutes to complete, and is used for treatment planning, clinical management, audit and research. It allows for the aggregations of data so that comparisons can be made for the purposes of internal and external benchmarking.