Table 2.
Access to speech and language therapy (SLT) services.
| Access to SLT services (% response; multiple responses allowed) | |
|---|---|
| Source of referrals | |
| Neurologists | 22.5% (n = 52) |
| General practitioners | 20.8% (n = 48) |
| Psychiatrists | 18.2% (n = 42) |
| Geriatricians | 6.9% (n = 16) |
| Referral reason | |
| Word-finding difficulties | 96% (n = 91) |
| Swallowing difficulties | 17% (n = 18) |
| Slurred speech | 15% (n = 16) |
| Time since symptom onset | |
| Within 2–3 years | 46.7% (n = 49) |
| Within 1 year | 40% (n = 42) |
| Respondents whose patients had always/often been informed of their diagnosis as: | |
| Dementia | 54.3% (n = 57) |
| PPA or FTD | 32.2% (n = 37) |
| svPPA | 3.8% (n = 7) |
| lvPPA | 6.5% (n = 12) |
| navPPA | 6.5% (n=12) |
| Barriers to accessing SLT services | |
| Other | 41.8% |
| Service criteria | 26.23% |
| Geographical location | 13.93% |
| Offered but declined | 13.11% |
| Language barrier | 4.92% |
PPA: primary progressive aphasia; FTD: fronto-temporal dementia; svPPA: semantic variant PPA; lvPPA: logopenic PPA; navPPA: Non-fluent agrammatic variant PPA.