Novita Children's Services, Flinders University, and University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
Augment Altern Commun. 2007;23(4):349-61. doi: 10.1080/07434610701535905.
In 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) ratified and published a new classification system, the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). There has been a varying amount of discussion and debate across the health and disability fields about what the ICF means and what it has to offer. However, there has been little discussion of its use and value in the field of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). This article describes the earlier International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps (ICIDH), upon which the current ICF was based; and outlines the ICF and the preliminary, derived Child and Youth version of the ICF (ICF-CY). The article also proposes what the ICF has to offer the AAC field, from both a clinical and research perspective; and concludes with a discussion of the advantages and challenges of using the ICF.
2001 年，世界卫生组织（WHO）批准并发布了新的分类系统，即《国际功能、残疾和健康分类》（ICF）。在卫生和残疾领域，人们对 ICF 的含义及其所能提供的内容进行了不同程度的讨论和辩论。然而，在辅助和替代性沟通（AAC）领域，对其使用和价值的讨论却很少。本文描述了先前的《国际残损、失能和残障分类》（ICIDH），现行的 ICF 就是在此基础上制定的；并概述了 ICF 以及 ICF 的初步、衍生的儿童和青少年版本（ICF-CY）。本文还从临床和研究的角度提出了 ICF 可为 AAC 领域带来的好处；最后讨论了使用 ICF 的优势和挑战。
