Estudio Cualitativo de la Práctica Fonoaudiológica en el Contexto de la Atención Primaria de la Salud, en la Quinta Región de Valparaíso

Abstract

The Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) approach represents a strategy whose purpose is to achieve full social integration and inclusion of people with disabilities. Considering that communication and human language represent tools of expression of thought, the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) advocates the development of effective communication promotion, as a human right accessible to all people, considering its inherent dignity. Objective: to analyze speech and language pathologist 's CBR practices in the fifth region of Valparaíso. Method: qualitative research, with a phenomenological approach. A semi-structured interview was conducted followed by a content analysis. Results: speech and Language pathologists carry out actions related to the five CBR key components and also the practice of actions in accord to intersector. Conclusions: The professionals adopt the CBR approach incorporating the institutional vision of service in which they are inserted and adopting a profile oriented to transdisciplinary. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]