Applying the ICF-CY and the World Report on Disability to supporting children’s communication

This morning between 7:00-8:30 am I presented a lecture titled “Applying the ICF-CY and the World Report on Disability to supporting children’s communication” to 44 students at the University of Cincinnati, OH, USA. It was Tuesday evening in Cincinnati and the presentation was facilitated by Dr Karla Washington. 
I outlined the ICF, ICF-CY, and World Report on Disability, then demonstrated how my colleagues and I have applied these documents within three research projects:

• Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (4,983 Australian 4- to 5-year-olds)

• Sound Effects Study (143 children with speech sound disorders)

• Speaking My Languages Study (speech-language pathologists who work with multilingual children) 

By using the ICF-CY as the foundation for data collection and analysis in these studies, we have been able to present rich, real world findings that relate to children's lives in context.

Research support in 2013

I am very fortunate to have outstanding research assistants who undertake a myriad of tasks to support the research I do. The acknowledgments sections of my journal articles list those who have been involved in specific papers, but I wanted to take this opportunity to acknowledge all of the people who have supported me in 2012 and to thank in advance my 2013 research assistants: Sarah Verdon and Felicity McKellar.
In 2012 the following people were my research assistants, some for the whole year, and some for specific tasks: Sarah Verdon, Hannah Wilkin, Amy Whitfield, Nicole Limbrick,  Rebekah Lockart, Brendon McLeod, and Jessica McLeod. In addition, there are many other people, who throughout the course of their own jobs, make my life and work so much easier. Thank you!

Sarah Verdon and Felicity McKellar

World Report on Disability article third most downloaded on informahealthcare site

This morning I received an  email from Therese Franzén, Senior Managing Editor, informahealthcare in Sweden regarding the lead article in the recent special issue of International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology titled “The World Report on Disability and people with communication disability” (http://informahealthcare.com/toc/asl/15/1).

She wrote:

“Changing practice: Implications of the World Report on Disability for responding to communication disability in under-served populations, published in the latest issue of IJSLP was the 3^rd most downloaded article on the entire informahealthcare.com site during January. It was accessed 448 times during this month, which would have placed it on a 5^th place on the list of most downloaded articles 2012 (based on full year statistics).” There are more than 160 journals published by informahealthcare.

Congratulations to the authors: Karen Wylie, Lindy McAllister, Bronwyn Davidson and Julie Marshall for their very important contribution to the discussion about both the World Report on Disability, and about underserved populations with communication disability.

For more information about the issue see this previous post.

Visitors to Multilingual Children’s Speech website

The Multilingual Children’s Speech website continues to attract visitors from around the world:

• November 2012 - 4,363 page views with the top countries being: US, Slovenia, The Netherlands, UK, Japan
• December 2012 - 3,222 page views with the top countries being: US, Australia, Canada, Germany
• January 2013 - 1,095 page views with the top countries being: US, Australia, France, UK, Canada, Singapore
• February, 2013 - 1,063 page views with the top countries being: US, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, Thailand (these data were uploaded to the blog 1 March)

 Here is the original post containing information about the website.