Weaving research into your clinical speech-language pathology practice.

A myth exists that the fabric of practicing clinicians in audiology and speech-language pathology rarely intertwines with that of the researcher. In fact, there are many instances where the fabrics overlap and are dependent upon each other. The opportunities that exist for weaving these two different (but similar) cloths together are immense. The benefits to professional development, scientific discovery, and ultimately, effective patient care are too numerous to mention in this short text (so numerous, in fact, that this article will deal only with speech-language pathology; look to a future Asha for a discussion of the interdependence of clinical audiology and research.