| Collaborations to address barriers for people with communication disabilities in Ghana: Considering the World Report on Disability. | |
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PMID: 23323817 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Abstract The World Health Organization's World Report on Disability underscores the need to identify and address barriers that limit people with disabilities from having access to services. Wylie, McAllister, Davidson, and Marshall (2013) consider the impact of that report on people with communication disabilities (PWCD). Over the past 5 years, the authors have worked together in Ghana to address the needs of PWCD. With only about 10 university-trained speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in Ghana, the barriers to PWCD receiving services are quite high. The authors are working together and with others to establish the first speech-language pathology program in Ghana. The authors also work to identify ways to share with PWCD and their families knowledge and skills on how to improve the communicative function of PWCD. In doing so, the authors have learned valuable lessons about the role of an SLP, especially when considering under-served PWCD, lessons that are applicable to both Majority and Minority World countries. This commentary describes the authors' work over the past 5 years, and describes initiatives that have had some measure of success in reducing barriers to access to information and services needed by PWCD and their caregivers and communities. |
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Catherine Crowley; Miriam Baigorri; Clement Ntim; Belinda Bukari; Albert Oseibagyina; Emmanuel Kitcher; Albert Paintsil; Opoku Ware Ampomah; Anthony Laing |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: International journal of speech-language pathology Volume: 15 ISSN: 1754-9515 ISO Abbreviation: Int J Speech Lang Pathol Publication Date: 2013 Feb |
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Created Date: 2013-01-17 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101320232 Medline TA: Int J Speech Lang Pathol Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 53-7 Citation Subset: IM |
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Teachers College Columbia University, New York , NY , USA. |
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