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Interdisciplinary team work — can it work?
Author(s) -
HARRIGAN SUZANNE,
DYAR DEE,
INSCOE JAYNE
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1460-6984.1995.tb01764.x
Subject(s) - teamwork , cochlear implant , work (physics) , rehabilitation , psychology , medical education , speech language pathology , service delivery framework , service (business) , nursing , pedagogy , medicine , engineering , management , business , physical therapy , mechanical engineering , marketing , neuroscience , economics
In 1989 the first exclusively paediatric cochlear implant programme in the UK was established in Nottingham. As implant team speech and language therapists, this has enabled us to work collaboratively with colleagues from six to eight different backgrounds and to consider the importance and benefits of effective interdisciplinary teamwork. The Nottingham Paediatric Cochlear Implant Programme commitment is to a child‐family‐centred philosophy of service delivery. Its emphasis on sharing information and rehabilitation skills with parents and a range of professionals has led us to extend if not question more traditional models of ‘unidisciplinary’ programmes of care.