Knowledge transfer between minority and majority world settings and its application to the World Report on Disability

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide commentary on the article entitled Changing practice: Implications of the World Report on Disability for responding to communication disability in underserved populations (). It discusses the need to develop innovative ways to provide more services to the populations in need. Further, it offers two examples that demonstrate knowledge transfer and exchange between Minority and Majority World settings and one example of using technology for service delivery and training that might shed some light on possible solutions.

Keywords::

• World Report on Disability
• World Health Organization
• speech-language pathology
• communication
• China

Declaration of interest: The author reports no conflicts of interest. The author alone is responsible for the content and writing of the paper.