Scottish Government

APPENDIX 4: SELECTION CRITERIA

Inclusion

• Must be a document concerning individuals with CSN.
• The experience of CSN individuals use or non use of services in both the mainstream and more specialist services (education, health, justice etc.).
• Documents that identify and draw out core difficulties/barriers to access and engagement with services for individuals with CSN.
• Documents identifying attitudes of the general population to individuals with CSN as from the viewpoint of how discrimination or lack of awareness and understanding of CSN affects the experiences of accessing and engaging with services.
• Documents that identify and draw out themes of good practice in terms of what helps people with CSN move through services (egg. successful transition through school, educational attainment).
• Document must be a research based, this can include any of the following:

• Case studies
• Studies that due to varied nature of CSNe.g. type/severity interpret the experience of use or non use of services by individuals with CSN via carers, family members, service providers, specialist therapists, special needs teacher etc.

• Documents that provide an indication of prevalence and scale of CSN in Scotland.
• Documents with a Scottish/ UK focus or relevant international literature ( e.g. English speaking countries).

Exclusion

• Document not concerned with CSN
• Document does not focus on the experiences of CSN individuals in their use or non use of both mainstream and specialist services (education, health, justice etc.)
• Non-research document ( e.g. internet blogs, TV broadcast material, anecdotal reports or books written by individuals with CSN)
• Intervention studies that measure individuals' performance without reference to the individual's beliefs and attitudes regarding access and engagement with services
• Material focusing on training assistants or other professionals about some of CSN such as alternative and augmentative communication
• Literature describing interventions, skills and symptoms of specific conditions characterised by CSN
• Document does not have a Scottish/ UK focus or relevant international perspective