STROKE ISIG Virtual Happy Hour

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Virtual Happy Hours are webinars featuring expert speakers in all areas of stroke rehabilitation. This is an opportunity to learn from and interact with the best in our field!

UPCOMING VIRTUAL HAPPY HOUR

14 AUGUST // 4:00 PM ET

The Power of Communication Partner Training in Rehabilitation: Evidence, Models, and Impact on Interdisciplinary Clinical Practice and Patient Experience

With guest speakers, Juliana C. Valentin, PT, DPT, NCS, Lindsay Escott, OTD, Katy Hattula, MS
Moderated by Elissa Larkin, MS, CCC-SLP, HEC-C

Many patients across rehabilitation settings have diagnoses that affect their speech, language, hearing, cognition, and/or voice, and therefore their ability to understand and be understood by others. Accurate information exchange is critical for optimizing rehabilitation outcomes and ensuring equitable care, and the provision of communication accommodations for patients who need them is included in best practice standards (e.g., The Joint Commission, 2010). Therefore, providers must be empowered with the knowledge and skills to meet their patients’ communication needs. Communication partner training (CPT) is an evidence-based approach to teaching communication accommodation skills and has been shown to be effective for varied interdisciplinary healthcare professional trainees (Cruice et al., 2018).

This panel includes a Speech-Language Pathologist and CPT facilitator, an Occupational Therapist and Physical Therapist CPT trainees, and a community member expert with lived experience of accessing healthcare with a communication disability. The CPT facilitator will describe evidence-based CPT components, training models, and implementation considerations for practicing rehabilitation clinicians. Clinician trainees will share their reflections on how CPT has impacted their clinical practice and patient and family interactions, and a person who is a stroke survivor living with aphasia will compare her experiences with clinicians who did and did not know how to accommodate her communication needs during clinical care. Finally, the panel will invite the audience to engage in collaborative discussion about CPT, and how rehabilitation clinicians and researchers can increase our ability to more effectively accommodate our patients’ communication needs.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of the webinar, learners will be able to:

Define Communication Partner Training (CPT) within the context of interdisciplinary clinical education.
Summarize current best practice evidence related to CPT and implementation considerations in rehabilitation settings.
Describe examples of CPT impact on interdisciplinary clinical practice and patient experience.

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