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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 269-287Publisher
AMER SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOC
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2011/10-0084)
Keywords
communicative participation; qualitative research; WHO ICF; voice disorders; neurologic communication disorders
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Purpose: To explore the similarities and differences in self-reported restrictions in communicative participation across different communication disorders in community-dwelling adults. Method: Interviews were conducted with 44 adults representing 7 different medical conditions: spasmodic dysphonia, multiple sclerosis, stroke, stuttering, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and laryngectomy. This article represents a secondary analysis of qualitative data collected in cognitive interviews during development of the Communicative Participation Item Bank. The data were analyzed to identify themes in participants' experiences related to communicative participation. Results: Participants described many situations in which they experienced interference in communicative participation. Two themes emerged from the data. The first theme was Interference is both functional and emotional, in which participants defined interference as limitations in accomplishing tasks and emotional consequences. The second theme was It depends-sources of interference, in which participants described many variables that contribute to interference in participation. Participants had limited control of some variables such as symptoms and environmental contexts, but personal decisions and priorities also influenced participation. Conclusions: Despite different impairments and activity limitations, participants described similar communicative participation restrictions. These similarities may have theoretical and clinical implications in terms of how we assess, treat, and study the participation restrictions associated with communication disorders.
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