The World Report on Disability and people with communication disability

The International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology has published a scientific forum titled: World Report on Disability and People with Communication Disability.
The issue can be found here: http://informahealthcare.com/toc/asl/15/1

The issue contains papers about people in Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Ghana, India, Malaysia, Togo, South Africa, UK, Uganda, US, and VietNam and addresses many issues about underserved populations (including migrants and Indigenous people). The final paper by McAllister et al. summarizes all of the response papers and recommends a way forward for working with people with communication disability throughout the world. I thank Karen Wylie (Ghana), Lindy McAllister (Australia), Bronwyn Davidson (Australia), and Julie Marshall (UK) for their vision for this special issue, and for their hard work in pulling it together.
The contents are as follow

Lead article
Changing practice: Implications of the World Report on Disability for responding to communication disability in underserved populations

Karen Wylie, Lindy McAllister, Bronwyn Davidson, and Julie Marshall

Commentaries

Widening the SLP lens: How can we improve the wellbeing of people with communication disabilities globally?

Mary Wickenden                                                               

The World Report on Disability and communication disability: Some considerations from an Indian context

Juliet Goldbart and Reena Sen

Defining communication disability in underserved communities in response to the World Report on Disability

Sue Roulstone and Sam Harding

A perspective from Bolivia on the implications of the World Report on Disability for people with communication disabilities

Susan Buell

Addressing education of speech-language pathologists in the World Report on Disability: Development of a speech-language pathology program in Malaysia

Kartini Ahmad, Hasherah Ibrahim, Basyariatul Fathi Othman, and Etain Vong

The World Report on Disability in relation to the development of speech-language pathology in Viet Nam

Marie Atherton, Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Dung, and Võ Hoàng Nhân 

Implementation of the World Report on Disability: Developing human resource capacity to meet the needs of people with communication disability in Uganda

Helen Barrett and Julie Marshall

Collaborations to address barriers for people with communication disabilities in Ghana: Considering the World Report on Disability

Catherine Crowley, Miriam Baigorri, Clement Ntim, Belinda Bukari, Albert Oseibagyina, Emmanuel Kitcher, Albert Paintsil, Opoku Ware Ampomah, and Anthony Laing

A French-speaking speech-language pathology program in West Africa: Transfer of training between Minority and Majority World countries

Sylvia Topouzkhanian and Moustafa Mijiyawa

Knowledge transfer between Minority and Majority World settings and its application to the World Report on Disability

Li-Rong Lilly Cheng

Responding to the World Report on Disability in Australia: Lessons from collaboration in an urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school

Bronwyn Davidson, Anne E. Hill, and Alison Nelson

Involving people with communication disability in research in Uganda:  A response to the World Report on Disability

Isla Jones, Julie Marshall, Rebecca Lawthom, and Jennifer Read

Can the subaltern speak? Visibility of international migrants with communication and swallowing disabilities in the World Report on Disability

Mershen Pillay

Promoting change through political consciousness: A South African speech-language pathology response to the World Report on Disability

Harsha Kathard and Mershen Pillay

Implementing the World Report on Disability in Malaysia: A student-led service promoting knowledge and innovation

Sandra Van Dort, Julia Coyle, Linda Wilson, and Hasherah Mohd Ibrahim

Implementing recommendations of the World Report on Disability for indigenous populations

Carol Westby

“From your own thinking you can’t help us”: Intercultural collaboration to address inequities in services for Indigenous Australians in response to the World Report on Disability

Anne Lowell

The World Report on Disability as a blueprint for international, national, and local aphasia services

Linda E. Worrall, Tami Howe, Anna O’Callaghan, Anne J. Hill, Miranda Rose, Sarah J. Wallace, Tanya Rose, Kyla Brown, Emma Power, Robyn O’Halloran, and Alexia Rohde

Implications of the World Report on Disability for responding to communication disorders in Brazil

Fernanda Dreux M. Fernandes and Mara Behlau

Response
The World Report on Disability: An impetus to reconceptualise services for people with communication disability

Lindy McAllister, Karen Wylie, Bronwyn Davidson, and Julie Marshall