🗣️ Keynote Address | Emma Power 🗣️
| Wednesday, May 24, 2023 |
| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
| Federation Plenary Hall |
Overview
Digital, co–created implementation of communication partner training programs for stroke, brain injury and dementia: Past, present and future
Speaker
Associate Professor Emma Power
University of Technology Sydney
Digital, co-created implementation of communication partner training programs for stroke, brain injury and dementia: Past, present and future.
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Presentation summary
Background
Communication Partner Training (CPT) is recommended practice for stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and dementia as well as in areas of practice across the lifespan, such as parent training programs. The broad aim of many of these programs is the same, to enhance the communicative environment of the person (or people) with a communication disability. By maximising the knowledge, attitude and skills of communication partners, whether they be family or friends, staff or community members, we can support people with communication disability to maximise their participation and wellbeing. More recent acknowledgement of the need for more flexible delivery methods such as telehealth and digital health as well as a demand for increased partnership roles of people with communication disability and their communication partners in designing CPT programs have intersected with the clear challenge of implementation and sustaining CPT in what are highly complex systems. In our CPT journey we have needed to step back and work out, what even IS CPT? What are its visible and not so visible ingredients? How do we measure impacts of CPT but also whether it is being used and sustained in routine clinical practice? We had to consider how we could use technology to deliver CPT to more people with COVID driving this further, but with constant attention to communication accessibility so we did not widen the digital health divide for our clients. We also needed to consider the degree to which our research and clinical implementation was informed by people with lived experience, and the degree to which their involvement was authentic and meaningful. This keynote presentation will outline this continuing CPT journey of reflection, respect and response and look to the future of CPT for our profession.
Keywords: stroke, traumatic brain Injury, dementia, communication partner training, implementation, codesign, digital health
Submission Statement
This keynote draws on Reflection to examine our past and current approaches to CPT and how the future CPT landscape should look. It addresses Respect in considering the challenges of CPT for clinicians and researchers, as well as the essential involvement of those with lived experience. The presentation encompasses Respond, through the essential element of implementation and clinical practice change.
Communication Partner Training (CPT) is recommended practice for stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and dementia as well as in areas of practice across the lifespan, such as parent training programs. The broad aim of many of these programs is the same, to enhance the communicative environment of the person (or people) with a communication disability. By maximising the knowledge, attitude and skills of communication partners, whether they be family or friends, staff or community members, we can support people with communication disability to maximise their participation and wellbeing. More recent acknowledgement of the need for more flexible delivery methods such as telehealth and digital health as well as a demand for increased partnership roles of people with communication disability and their communication partners in designing CPT programs have intersected with the clear challenge of implementation and sustaining CPT in what are highly complex systems. In our CPT journey we have needed to step back and work out, what even IS CPT? What are its visible and not so visible ingredients? How do we measure impacts of CPT but also whether it is being used and sustained in routine clinical practice? We had to consider how we could use technology to deliver CPT to more people with COVID driving this further, but with constant attention to communication accessibility so we did not widen the digital health divide for our clients. We also needed to consider the degree to which our research and clinical implementation was informed by people with lived experience, and the degree to which their involvement was authentic and meaningful. This keynote presentation will outline this continuing CPT journey of reflection, respect and response and look to the future of CPT for our profession.
Keywords: stroke, traumatic brain Injury, dementia, communication partner training, implementation, codesign, digital health
Submission Statement
This keynote draws on Reflection to examine our past and current approaches to CPT and how the future CPT landscape should look. It addresses Respect in considering the challenges of CPT for clinicians and researchers, as well as the essential involvement of those with lived experience. The presentation encompasses Respond, through the essential element of implementation and clinical practice change.
