Equity and Access to Services for Children with Language Difficulties: from Part Three - Impact, Intervention and Equity

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Reilly, Sheena
Law, James
Conway, Maya
Krahe, Michelle
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Law, James

Reilly, Sheena

McKean, Cristina

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2022
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Care injustice, sometimes termed the ‘postcode lottery’ arises when individuals cannot access services simply because of where they reside. The distribution and access to health and education services for children with language difficulties is explored in this chapter. There is a body of literature demonstrating that service availability and accessibility can differ markedly between metropolitan and rural settings. Here, we draw on available evidence to discuss the relationship between health inequities and inequalities, proposing a place-based approach as a potential solution, which encourages the location and distribution of services based on community need. This chapter also addresses the way in which many services have been historically developed, that is, along the traditional ‘clinical’ model rather than a model which considers and reviews the needs of a community from a population health perspective and likely needs of the child population. We conclude by highlighting some key steps that need to be taken to ensure the design and delivery of services to meet the future needs of the population, and outline some of the challenges in adopting this approach.

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Language Development Individual Differences in a Social Context

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© 2022 University of Queensland Press. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the publisher’s website for further information.

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Health services and systems

Child language acquisition

Language Arts & Disciplines

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Reilly, S; Law, J; Conway, M; Krahe, M, Equity and Access to Services for Children with Language Difficulties: from Part Three - Impact, Intervention and Equity, Language Development Individual Differences in a Social Context, 2022, pp. 539-560

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