Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 Jun 22;303:76-82. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230402.
This essay discusses Universal Design (UD) with respect to language and communication rights. Because Universal Design approaches aim at meeting human variability from the get-go, they must be able to address linguistic and communicative variability. Variability must individual variation in language functions and communication activities in the absence of disability and variability when speech, language or communicative disorders are present. Current conceptualizations of speech, language and communication disabilities take a person-centered approach and a bio-psycho-social framework of health and disease (WHO-ICF) that encompass three ontological domains: body functions and structures, activities, and participation. The framework crucially lists environmental factors that interact with each domain. I illustrate how UD can successfully be integrated with an ICF framework in the domain of speech, language and communication impairments; I then propose that the ICF model can be extended beyond disability to non-clinical populations and settings, to meet the communication rights for all.
本文探讨了通用设计（UD）与语言和沟通权利的关系。由于通用设计方法旨在从一开始就满足人类的变异性，因此它们必须能够解决语言和交际的变异性。这种变异性必须包括在没有残疾的情况下语言功能和交际活动的个体差异，以及在存在言语、语言或交际障碍时的变异性。当前对言语、语言和交际障碍的概念化采用了以个人为中心的方法和健康与疾病的生物-心理-社会框架（WHO-ICF），其中包括三个本体论领域：身体功能和结构、活动和参与。该框架关键列出了与每个领域相互作用的环境因素。我举例说明了 UD 如何成功地与言语、语言和沟通障碍领域的 ICF 框架相结合；然后，我提出 ICF 模型可以扩展到非临床人群和环境，以满足所有人的沟通权利。
