Mini-Workshop

Engaging Patients, Families, and Interprofessional Team Members in Co-creating Training Initiatives

- CDT
Room: St. Nicholas B
Jessica Gormley, PhD, CCC-SLP
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Maryjan Fiala, M.S.
University of Nebraska Medical Center Munroe-Meyer Institute
Garrett Nathan, M.S., CCC-SLP
University of Nebraska Medical Center Munroe Meyer Institute
Track:
  • Expanding Interprofessional Health and Social Care Teams and Collaborative Practice

Balancing standardization and individualization is critical to meeting the unique needs of both patients and trainees. This session introduces a dual philosophical perspective for developing training materials, blending behaviorist and constructivist ideals. Central to this approach is the involvement of patients, families, trainees, and interprofessional team members as co-creators in designing, delivering, and evaluating interventions. The session will illustrate a variety of methods for engaging diverse participants in the co-creation process used during clinical research projects including: (a) a video training series co-created by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and parents of children who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC); (b) a collaborative project to create personalized training for healthcare providers, and (c) an online module series to address the unique needs of individuals with developmental disabilities during healthcare encounters, co-created by family members, an SLP, behavior analysts, and trainees.

Learning Objectives

  • Assess how strategies for patient, family, trainee, and health team member engagement in co-creation can effectively be applied in their context.
  • Develop action steps for involving patients, families, trainees, and other health team members in co-creation.
  • Identify strategies for overcoming constraints related to co-creating with patients, families, trainees, and other health team members.

References

  • Barkley, E. F., Howell Major, C., & Cross, K.P. (2014). Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty. Jossey-Bass.
  • Elias, J. L. & Merriam, S. B. (2005). Philosophical foundations of adult education, 3rd ed. Krieger Publishing. Kindle Edition.
  • Gormley, J., McNaughton, D., & Light, J. (2023). Supporting children’s communication of choices during inpatient rehabilitation: Effects of a mobile training for health care providers. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 32, 545-564. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_ajslp-22-00200
  • Gormley, J., & Koch Fager, S. (2021). Personalization of patient-provider communication across the lifespan. Topics in Language Disorders, 21, 249-268. https://doi.org/10.1097/TLD.0000000000000255
  • Kent-Walsh, J., Murza, K. A., Malani, M. D., & Binger, C. (2015). Effects of Communication Partner Instruction on the Communication of Individuals using AAC: A Meta- Analysis. AAC: Augmentative & Alternative Communication, 31(4), 271– 2 84. https://doi.org/10.3109/07434618.2015.1052153