ILJCD: Barriers and Facilitators to Communication Partner Training

RCSLT - Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

How can we best implement communication partner training with familiar partners of people with aphasia?

In this International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders paper the authors set out to:
(1) determine the perceived and/or observed barriers and facilitators to implementing CPT with familiar partners of adults with aphasia;
(2) to map extracted barriers and facilitators to a common theoretical framework; (3) to synthesise extracted barriers and facilitators;
and (4) to identify potential implementation strategies to address the most frequently identified barriers and facilitators.

Authors Kirstine Shrubsole, Emma Power, Marie-Christine Hallé were awarded the IJLCD 2023 Editors' prize for this paper.

The paper is:
Communication partner training with familiar partners of people with aphasia: A systematic review and synthesis of barriers and facilitators to implementation

Kirstine Shrubsole, Emma Power, Marie-Christine Hallé

Examples of free, brief online training programs (less than 2 hours)

Aphasia Institute Community Hub: Introduction to SCA™ eLearning Module, The Aphasia Institute, Canada

• https://www.aphasia.ca/health-care-providers/education-training/self-directed-elearning/
• An aphasia-focused, 40 minute module centred on Supported Communication principles.

interact-ABI-lity, University of Sydney and University of Technology, Australia

• https://abi-communication-lab.sydney.edu.au/courses/interact-abi-lity/
• An acquired brain injury focused module (Stroke, Traumatic brain injury and other neurological conditions) covering cognitive communication difficulties, aphasia, dysarthria and alternative and augmentative communication.

For the article referring to online versus face-to-face here is the IJLCD article reference.

Power, E., Falkenberg, K., Barnes, S., Elbourn, E., Attard, M., & Togher, L. (2020). A pilot randomized controlled trial comparing online versus face-to-face delivery of an aphasia communication partner training program for student healthcare professionals. International journal of language & communication disorders, 55(6), 852–866. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12556

First published:
23 November 2022

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