TY - JOUR
T1 - Communication partner training for healthcare workers engaging with people with aphasia
T2 - Enacting Sustainable Development Goal 17 in Austria, Egypt, Greece, India and Serbia
AU - Isaksen, Jytte
AU - Beeke, Suzanne
AU - Pais, Analisa
AU - Efstratiadou, E. A.
AU - Pauranik, Apoorva
AU - Revkin, Susannah K.
AU - Vandana, V. P.
AU - Valencia, Fabián
AU - Vuksanović, Jasmina
AU - Jagoe, Caroline
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the support of the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists which is funded by The Tavistock Trust for Aphasia in fostering international and multidisciplinary aphasia research collaboration. We also would like to acknowledge all team members from the five participating countries and Dr. Rebecca Palmer who put all of us in touch with each other.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Speech Pathology Association of Australia Limited.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Purpose: This commentary describes how a grassroot-led partnership initiated by members of the organisations World Federation of NeuroRehabilitation and Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists is addressing the marginalisation of people with aphasia, through education and knowledge exchange related to communication partner training of health professionals. Result: A partnership between academics and healthcare professionals across Austria, Denmark, Egypt, Ireland, Greece, India, Serbia and the United Kingdom was established in 2020. Through bimonthly online sessions in 2021–2022 a Danish communication partner training program was introduced while six teams adapted and translated the training and its materials to their local contexts. Conclusion: A collaborative partnership enabled multiple translations of an existing communication partner training program for healthcare professionals working with people with aphasia to support a sustainable delivery model that is linguistic and culturally sensitive. This commentary paper focusses on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17 and also addresses SDG 10.
AB - Purpose: This commentary describes how a grassroot-led partnership initiated by members of the organisations World Federation of NeuroRehabilitation and Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists is addressing the marginalisation of people with aphasia, through education and knowledge exchange related to communication partner training of health professionals. Result: A partnership between academics and healthcare professionals across Austria, Denmark, Egypt, Ireland, Greece, India, Serbia and the United Kingdom was established in 2020. Through bimonthly online sessions in 2021–2022 a Danish communication partner training program was introduced while six teams adapted and translated the training and its materials to their local contexts. Conclusion: A collaborative partnership enabled multiple translations of an existing communication partner training program for healthcare professionals working with people with aphasia to support a sustainable delivery model that is linguistic and culturally sensitive. This commentary paper focusses on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17 and also addresses SDG 10.
KW - aphasia
KW - communication disability
KW - communication partner training
KW - intervention adaptation
KW - partnerships for the goals (SDG 17)
KW - reduced inequalities (SDG 10)
KW - Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
U2 - 10.1080/17549507.2022.2145355
DO - 10.1080/17549507.2022.2145355
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 36927168
AN - SCOPUS:85142358607
SN - 1754-9507
VL - 25
SP - 172
EP - 177
JO - International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
JF - International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
IS - 1
ER -