Script Voz – clinical case simulator of adults with behavioral dysphonia: planning and content creation

Purpose  To present the preliminary results of the development of a web platform aimed at training clinical reasoning aimed at the speech therapy approach to patients with behavioral dysphonia.

Methods  Methodological study that describes the tool development stages. The contents were defined by consensus from a panel of experts. The project will comply with the stages of planning, platform development, content creation, usability evaluation and user acceptance, redefinition of the tool and determination of charges. This article presents the processes and results of the first three stages.

Results  Called Script Voz, the web platform will initially include six clinical cases of behavioral dysphonia. The user can select one clinical case at a time, and must be guided sequentially through the assessment, diagnosis, and therapeutic planning stages of the case. To do so, you must choose the answer(s) you deem appropriate to each of the ten questions proposed for each clinical case. Procedure guides for assessment, diagnosis and therapeutic planning focused on clinical cases that will make up the tool are presented, highlighting their processes.

Conclusion  Script Voz will be freely accessible. The procedural guides provided here will guide data collection, manifestation diagnosis and therapeutic planning focused on the clinical cases that will make up the tool. The questions and feedback that will guide the user experience are still in the final stages of preparation. The tool will use real clinical cases and arguments anchored in the clinical reasoning of experienced professionals.

Keywords:
Speech Language and Hearing Sciences; Clinical Reasoning; Clinical Decision Making; Cognition; Learning; Simulation Training