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COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW COURSE AND SERVICE IN SRI LANKA
Author(s) -
Wickenden M.,
Hartley S.,
Kodikara S.,
Mars M.,
Sell D.,
Sirimana T.,
Wirz S.
Publication year - 2001
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 - 10.3109/13682820109177904
Subject(s) - sri lanka , work (physics) , unit (ring theory) , sustainability , service delivery framework , service (business) , public health , health services , medical education , developing country , nursing , psychology , medicine , economic growth , sociology , business , engineering , socioeconomics , environmental health , marketing , mechanical engineering , ecology , population , mathematics education , biology , economics , tanzania
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has a long established service development and research programme with Sri Lankan colleagues. The Centre for International Child Health (CICH) is an academic unit with public health interests in the countries of the South. Together a group of collaborators at GOSH, CICH and in Sri Lanka worked together to plan how a cadre of health workers could be prepared to work with people with communication disabilities. This is not an uncommon aim in under‐served countries and there is a small published literature about the courses which have been developed. Choices about models for training, service delivery and ensuring sustainability in emerging services for people with communication disabilities are complex. Links can be made with development work in other disciplines. The literature relating to these issues in countries such as Sri Lanka is examined.