Economic Value of Speech Pathology Services focus group

This morning I was invited to participate in a Speech Pathology Australia focus group with Nous Group to discuss an analytical framework to consider speech pathology services for early childhood. Their brief is to consider "Economic Value of Speech Pathology Services" Many of our population and intervention studies were relevant to the conversation. This provocation provides a summary of lots of the topics we discussed this morning:

https://provocations.csu.edu.au/communication-is-a-human-right-but-not-everyone-can-communicate-effectively/

 

Children Draw Health: Children's advisory group week 2

Each Wednesday in September our Children Draw Health Advisory Group are considering the 100+ drawings from 17 countries we have received in our research. This week we continued to consider themes and answers to these questions:

1. What makes you healthy? 
2. Who helps you be healthy? 
3. Where do you go to get healthy? 
4. What would your ideal healthcare setting look like? 

Photographs are shared with permission from the children and their parents 

Children Draw Health: Children's advisory group week 1

Each Wednesday in September our Children Draw Health Advisory Group are considering the 100+ drawings from 17 countries we have received in our research. They are thinking about what the children of the world have shared. They analysed a sample of drawings to determine themes (food, doctors, hospitals, rainbows, friends, workout and sports), added their own ideas and came up with the following themes and answers to these questions:

1. What makes you healthy? Doctors, food, hospitals, Workout and sports
2. Who helps you be healthy? Mom, Dad, friends, doctors, hospital, therapist
3. Where do you go to get healthy? Hospital, doctor
4. What would your ideal healthcare setting look like? Rainbows, friends, nature

Stay tuned for next weeks' analysis...

A fun way to work out which themes answered which questions

At the beginning we considered each of the drawings and the artists' explanations

At the beginning we considered each of the drawings and the artists' explanations

At the end everyone demonstrated the thematic groups

Children Draw Health: Children's advisory group to analyse drawings and podcast

Today Dr Belinda Downey and Dr Travis Holland I met to plan the 4 x weekly sessions in September where our children's advisory group will analyse drawings from our Children DRaw Health project - and create podcasts. We had LOTS of great ideas.