The purpose of this paper is to describe strategies for retrieving and using evidence published in the research literature for application to treatment planning with a particular client. Suggestions are given for how to develop clinical questions about a particular client for use in guiding literature retrieval, how to retrieve the most relevant research studies in a timely manner, how to interpret results of these studies for use with a single client, and how to communicate the results of these studies with clients and families in order to engage in collaborative treatment planning.
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