Profiling the Roles and Responsibilities of Professionals and Non-Professionals Providing Speech Language Services for Individuals with CLP in Resource-Limited Regions
Fourteen Speech and Language Therapists/Pathologists (SLT/Ps) from 13 countries across 5 continents made up the International Confederation of Cleft Lip and Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies (ICCPCA) CLEFT 2022 Speech Taskforce. Following a group consensus activity led by an external facilitator using Lightning Design Thinking principles, "task-shifting" was identified as the topic for this Taskforce. Absence and scarcity of SLT/Ps in many parts of the world have led to non-SLT/Ps delivering speech and language therapy services to individuals with cleft lip +/- palate. This narrative is the first known attempt to develop a framework, describing the different types of providers and their scope of practice.
Authors
- Benjamas Prathanee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7954-4980)
- Yoshiko Takei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1165-7123)
- Veronica Yu
- Triona Sweeney (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1673-4856)
- Roopa Nagarajan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2376-1780)
- Valerie Pereira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7527-053X)
- B. Subramaniyan
- Debbie Sell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2488-5881)
- Selena Ee-Li Young (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6035-9264)
- Erika Bostock
- Karen Goldschmied
- M.V.M. Jayathilake
- Nargis Jahan
Institutions
- SHOWA Medical University (JP)
- National University of Singapore (SG)
- Singapore Institute of Technology (SG)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Khon Kaen University (TH)
- Great Ormond Street Hospital (GB)
- Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children (LK)
- Operation PAR (US)
- Smile Train (US)
- Hospital Luis Calvo Mackenna (CL)
- KK Women's and Children's Hospital (SG)
- Southbank Centre (GB)
- Shri Bhausaheb Hire Government Medical College & Hospital (IN)
- LEM International (Switzerland)
- University College London (GB)
- Bharath University (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal
- Published
- 2024-08-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/10556656241271640
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Cleft Lip and Palate Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.55