The unmet need for mental health support among persons with disabilities in Somalia: Principal correlates and barriers to access.

Disability and mental ill-health may be especially prevalent in Somalia, largely due to a protracted armed conflict and its consequent humanitarian crises. Little, if any, research to date, however, has simultaneously explored disability- and mental health-related factors in the Somali context. Using both descriptive and regression analytical techniques, we aimed to determine how increasing levels of functional impairment reported across different disability domains (i.

Communication partner training for student health and social care professionals engaging with people with stroke acquired communication difficulties: A protocol for a realist review.

Background: Stroke acquired communication impairments impede effective communication. Consequently, in stroke care, communicative interactions can be challenging for both patients and staff and can predispose patients to increased risk of preventable adverse events. Communication partner training (CPT) can mitigate such negative outcomes by optimising communicative interactions.

Communication partner training for healthcare workers engaging with people with aphasia: Enacting Sustainable Development Goal 17 in Austria, Egypt, Greece, India and Serbia.

Purpose: This commentary describes how a grassroot-led partnership initiated by members of the organisations World Federation of NeuroRehabilitation and Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists is addressing the marginalisation of people with aphasia, through education and knowledge exchange related to communication partner training of health professionals.

Result: A partnership between academics and healthcare professionals across Austria, Denmark, Egypt, Ireland, Greece, India, Serbia and the United Kingdom was established in 2020. Through bimonthly online sessions in 2021-2022 a Danish communication partner training program was introduced while six teams adapted and translated the training and its materials to their local contexts.

Restricted participation: Drivers, experiences and implications of disability stigma in Ethiopia.

Background: Community-based inclusive development (CBID) acknowledges society's critical role in supporting the active participation of persons with disabilities. However, research on how this approach relates to the context-sensitive socially situated barriers of disability stigma is underexplored.

Objectives: This study aimed to understand the drivers and experiences of disability stigma in Ethiopia, from the perspective of persons with disabilities engaged in CBID programmes, and to establish how disability stigma acts as a barrier to participation.

Interpersonal violence experienced by people with communication disabilities in Iraq: Sustainable Development Goals 16 and 5.

Purpose: This paper presents an analysis of interpersonal identity-based violence experienced by persons with communication disabilities in Iraq and the barriers reported to accessing supports. The use of communication accessible data collection tools is discussed as a means of enabling an inclusive response for multiple marginalised groups in relation to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 16 and 5.

Result: People with communication disabilities reported similar levels of interpersonal violence to those with disabilities of other types, characterised by high rates of deprivation and physical violence.

Communicating accessible messages for food insecure communities in Northern Mozambique: Supporting Sustainable Development Goal 2.

Purpose: This paper describes a collaborative project between Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) Mozambique country office. The Sphere standards require that information on humanitarian assistance should be in languages and formats accessible to people who cannot read or who have communication difficulties. Nevertheless, there remains a gap in both implementing this guidance consistently and in understanding the impact of doing so when engaging with affected populations.

Video Relay Interpretation and Overcoming Barriers in Health Care for Deaf Users: Scoping Review.

Background: Persons who are deaf are more likely to avoid health care providers than those who can hear, partially because of the lack of means of communication with these providers and the dearth of available interpreters. The use of video remote interpretation, namely the video camera on an electronic device, to connect deaf patients and health providers has rapidly expanded owing to its flexibility and advantageous cost compared with in-person sign language interpretation. Thus, we need to learn more about how this technology could effectively engage with and respond to the priorities of its users.

Systematic Review of Training Communication Partners of Chinese-speaking Persons With Aphasia.

Objective: To determine the aims, participants, and outcomes of training communication partners of Chinese-speaking persons with aphasia (PWA).

Data Sources: Sixty search terms related to communication partner training (CPT) in Chinese characters were searched in 8 electronic databases (published 1991-2020).

Study Selection: Journal articles written in Chinese that primarily target the Chinese audience and university theses were selected for review.

Direct participation of people with communication disabilities in research on poverty and disabilities in low and middle income countries: A critical review.

Introduction: An estimated 1 billion people with disabilities live in low and middle income countries, a population that includes people with communication disabilities (PwCD). PwCD are a heterogenous group with a wide range of abilities who may be underrepresented in research due to the communication demands involved in research participation.

Methods: A critical analysis of 145 studies from a previously published systematic review was undertaken with the aim of documenting the opportunities for direct participation of PwCD in research on poverty and disability in low- and middle- income countries.

Disability Data Collection in a Complex Humanitarian Organisation: Lessons from a Realist Evaluation.

In recent years, global attention to disability inclusion in humanitarian and development contexts, notably comprising disability inclusion within the Sustainable Development Goals, has significantly increased. As a result, UN agencies and programmes are increasingly seeking to understand and increase the extent to which persons with disabilities are accounted for and included in their efforts to provide life-saving assistance. To explore the effects and effectiveness of such measurement, this paper applies a complexity-informed, realist evaluation methodology to a case study of a single measurement intervention.

Mutual (Mis)understanding: Reframing Autistic Pragmatic "Impairments" Using Relevance Theory.

A central diagnostic and anecdotal feature of is difficulty with social . We take the position that communication is a two-way, phenomenon-as described by the -and offer up (a cognitive account of utterance interpretation) as a means of explaining such communication difficulties. Based on a set of proposed heuristics for successful and rapid interpretation of intended meaning, relevance theory positions communication as contingent on shared-and, importantly, recognized-"relevance.

Use of diverse diagnostic criteria for acquired apraxia of speech: a scoping review.

Background: There is a growing body of evidence that speech and language therapy (SLT) intervention is effective in improving communication ability for individuals with non-progressive acquired apraxia of speech (AOS). However, there is no universally agreed diagnostic standard for AOS, and diverging opinions on its diagnostic features. This has led to claims that diverse diagnostic criteria may be used to select participants for AOS research studies.