Services provided at KVRC in Salina to be decentralized to local communities, increasing access for people with disabilities seeking assistance in gaining employment

People with disabilities (PWD) experience significant health disparities, at least partly due to difficulties accessing health care. These difficulties are multi-focal, including difficulties with transportation, effective communication, physical accessibility, and provider attitudes. Community engagement offers one method for working with local communities around health care access for PWD. By engaging PWD and the local infrastructure (e.g., providers, government, transportation, advocates), unique solutions are generated and awareness in the community is increased. We describe the use of our approach "Community Engagement in Health Care" with one such Oregon community.

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Different settings of violence and risk factor for suicide: a case-control study in Campinas, Brazil

European Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.1266 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽

Author(s):

D Komoda ◽

R C Cordeiro ◽

A M P Ruiz ◽

M R B Fernández

Keyword(s):

Child Abuse ◽

Risk Factor ◽

Suicide Risk ◽

Case Control Study ◽

People With Disabilities ◽

Case Control ◽

Local Communities ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Global And Local ◽

Control Study

Abstract Background According to WHO, “800,000 people die due to suicide every year” and “is the third leading cause of death in 15-19-years-old”. And although the main risk factor to suicide is a prior attempt, this study tried to find other risk factors, which can guide a broader discussion amongst global and local communities as well as policy makers and healthcare professionals effort against all forms of violence. The aim of the study is to measure the risk of suicide in different sets of violence. Methods This is a case-control study held in Campinas-SP, by epiGeo research group on violence during 2019. Cases are defined as people who commited suicide; information on child abuse were collected through verbal autopsy interviews with kinships. For controls, R randomly selected addresses for interview with someone randomly selected. Odds Ratio was obtained by generalized logistic regression. Confidence Interval was set to 95%. Results Final analysis shows that suicides represented 14.2% of death due to external causes in 2019. A relation between male sex and suicide was observed (OR: 4.35; CI 2.55 - 7.41; p < 0.0001). Abuse during childhood also showed positive relation (RR: 2.16; CI 1.09 - 4.27; p = 0.0001). Another relation were observed in people with disabilities and suicide risk (RR: 2.04; CI 1.26 - 3.31; p = 0.004). Conclusions People who suffered child abuse and people with disabilities are amongst the ones who suffer higher risks of suicide, and the most probable hypothesis relating both conditions is violence. Action must be taken by the global and local communities, policy makers in a broad sense, against maltreatment, bullying, youth violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, emotional and psychological violence, and gender-based violence. Key messages Strengthening protective policy to overcome violence and abuse against child and other vulnerable people is of major importance to fight suicide risk. Accessibility and protective policies are of utmost importance to a more inclusive and welcoming society.

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An imagined community of practice: Online discourse among wheelchair users

Linguistik Online ◽

10.13092/lo.87.4177 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 87 (8) ◽

Author(s):

Leslie E. Cochrane

Keyword(s):

Community Of Practice ◽

Computer Mediated Communication ◽

People With Disabilities ◽

Local Communities ◽

Sense Making ◽

Online Discourse ◽

Imagined Community ◽

Mediated Communication ◽

Wheelchair Users ◽

Computer Mediated

People with disabilities often live in local communities primarily made up of people without disabilities: in the absence of a geographic community of people with disabilities, the internet becomes a valuable tool for connecting individuals across both local and global contexts. The power of computer-mediated communication (CMC) to allow individuals to interact both locally and globally has been well-studied in linguistics (e. g. Baron 2008; Page 2012), and this work has included the discourse of e-health (e. g. Hamilton 1998; Locher 2006, 2013) and the online discourse of people with disabilities (Al Zidjaly 2011, 2015). Less research has been done, however, on the implications of online discourse for understanding people with disabilities as a linguistic community.This paper argues that the community of people with disabilities can be viewed from a linguistic perspective as an imagined community of practice: an imagined community, because members recognize their common belonging even if they do not interact locally (Anderson 1983); a community of practice, because members use recognizable, if not identical, disability practices and engage in shared sense-making (Eckert 2006; Eckert/McConnell-Ginet 1992). This understanding of the community of people with disabilities is evidenced in online blogs by wheelchair users.A close discourse analysis of the blog posts shows shared sense-making around disability practices, even though individual bloggers’ practices may vary according to their specific strategies for accommodation. In their posts, the bloggers construct their disability identities in terms of practice and imagine themselves to belong to a community that is distinguished by disability practice. The analysis reveals shared sense-making: in particular, the way that the bloggers position themselves in opposition to the societal discourse that people with disabilities are an inspiration to people without them. In this way, the bloggers demonstrate their membership within an imagined community of practice made up of people with disabilities.

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A plan to establish a cooperation model for case management for people with disabilities in local communities and the changing role of welfare centers

Research Institute of Human Ecology ◽

10.36357/johe.2020.24.3.125 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 125-140

Author(s):

Dongki Kim ◽

Dongmyung Seo ◽

Sangwoo Lee ◽

Sangjin Lee

Keyword(s):

Case Management ◽

People With Disabilities ◽

Local Communities ◽

Cooperation Model ◽

Changing Role

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Speech-Language Pathology in the Peace Corps: Necessity and Sustainability

Perspectives on Global Issues in Communication Sciences and Related Disorders ◽

10.1044/gics2.1.11 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 11-18

Author(s):

Melissa A. Pierce

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Special Education ◽

Peace Corps ◽

People With Disabilities ◽

Communication Disorders ◽

The United States ◽

Speech Language Pathology ◽

Speech Language Pathologists ◽

Language Pathology

In countries other than the United States, the study and practice of speech-language pathology is little known or nonexistent. Recognition of professionals in the field is minimal. Speech-language pathologists in countries where speech-language pathology is a widely recognized and respected profession often seek to share their expertise in places where little support is available for individuals with communication disorders. The Peace Corps offers a unique, long-term volunteer opportunity to people with a variety of backgrounds, including speech-language pathologists. Though Peace Corps programs do not specifically focus on speech-language pathology, many are easily adapted to the profession because they support populations of people with disabilities. This article describes how the needs of local children with communication disorders are readily addressed by a Special Education Peace Corps volunteer.

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