May 19, 2020

ICF-Australia Interest Group

Today I attended the ICF-Australia Interest Group online meeting chaired by Richard Madden from the University of Sydney and attended by people across Australia, in the US and Greece.
The topics included:
  • Merging ICF and ICF-CY into ICF2020 that will be uploaded into a new electronic format
  • Request for comments about recommended changes to ICF (including recommendations to Chapter 3 - Communication) (Catherine Sykes)
  • Mapping SDGs onto ICF is underway (Brooke MacPherson)
  • ICHI for medical and surgical interventions will be finalised in 2020. ICHI for functioning will be the next focus, followed by public health.
In the section about news from the Interest Group, I was able to mention the following publications:
  1. Cronin, A., McLeod, S., & Verdon, S. (2020, in press May). Holistic communication assessment for young children with cleft palate using the ICF-CY. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. 
  2. Cronin, A., McLeod, S., & Verdon, S. (2020, in press February). Applying the ICF-CY to specialist SLPs’ practice with toddlers with cleft palate speech. The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal. Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1177/1055665620918799 
  3. Blake, H. L., & McLeod, S. (2019). Speech-language pathologists’ support for multilingual speakers’ English intelligibility and participation informed by the ICF. Journal of Communication Disorders, 77, 56-70. doi:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2018.12.003

I was also able to make a number of suggestions regarding recommended changes to the ICF and will followup on this in the next week.

Here are some resources recommended during the meeting:
Catherine Sykes demonstrating how to use the ICF Update Platform
Dr. Rune Simeonsson

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