RETRACTED: Allocation and funding of Speech and Language Therapy for children with Developmental Language Disorders across Europe and beyond

Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of Authors and Editor-in-Chief. Whilst conducting further analyses for a companion paper in June 2021 using the survey data reported in this study, it came to the authors' attention that unfortunately there were errors in the data used in the analyses for this paper. The authors believe this to be either human error in data entry or coding or a technical error whilst recoding a variable. They therefore reran their analyses with the correct data for the paper to understand if and how the results differed from those published, and they did indeed change the findings. As soon as this came to the authors' attention (July 2021), they contacted the Editorial office. All authors on the paper are in agreement with this retraction. A new revised article with the correct data, analysis and results is now available: 10.1016/j.ridd.2021.104139.

Keywords: Developmental Language Disorder; Direct therapy; Funding policy; Implementation; Indirect therapy; Mixed therapy; Speech and Language Therapy.