Communicative Participation in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Concept Elicitation Study

What is already known on this subject Communicative participation is the most important outcome of speech and language therapy. However, measurement instruments (preferably patient reported outcome measures, PROMs) to assess communicative participation of adolescents and young adults are scarce. Moreover, perspectives of adolescents and young adults on self-experienced communicative participation, which can lead to the development of a measurement instrument, have not yet been identified. What this paper adds to existing knowledge This study is about the self-experienced communicative participation situations mentioned by adolescents and young adults themselves. It presents 37 concepts describing communicative participation that were identified from communicative participation situations mentioned by adolescents and young adults themselves. What are the potential or actual clinical implications of this work? This study provides more insight into concepts that describe communicative participation from the perspectives of adolescents and young adults. The results will be used to develop an item bank measuring communicative participation in the target population.