Diversity
Committee Members 2007-2008:
Jacqueline Kreiter Kotas, Chair (2006-08)- jkreiter@mail.sdsu.edu
Nidhi Mahendra (2006-2008)- nidhiaz@yahoo.com
Robert McKinney (2006-2008)- b_mck62@hotmail.com
Anna Wong (2007-2009)- AnnaWong@san.rr.com
Betty Yu (2007-2009)- bettyyu@mac.com
DIVERSITY NEWSLETTER MARCH 2008
DIVERSITY NEWSLETTER MARCH 2007
•Who is Who
Mission of the Diversity Committee:
Since its inception, CSHA's Diversity Committee has worked to assist
CSHA members in increasing their knowledge and awareness on issues
of diversity in the speech, language, and hearing professions.
Bilingual
Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists: Definition
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 1989
Speech-language pathologists or audiologists who present themselves
as bilingual for the purposes of providing clinical services must be
able to speak their primary language and to speak (or sign) at least
one other language with native or near-native proficiency in lexicon
(vocabulary), semantics (meaning), phonology (pronunciation), morphology/syntax
(grammar), and pragmatics (uses) during clinical management.
To provide bilingual assessment
and remediation services in the client's language, the bilingual
speech-language pathologist or audiologist should possess:
1. ability to describe the process of normal speech and language acquisition
for both bilingual and
monolingual
individuals and how those processes are manifested in oral (or manually
coded) and written language;
2. ability to administer and interpret formal and informal assessment
procedures to distinguish between communication differences and communication
disorders in oral (or manually coded) and written language; 3.
ability to apply intervention strategies for treatment of communication
disorders in the client's language; and 4.
ability to recognize cultural factors which affect the delivery of
speech-language pathology and audiology services to the client's language
community.
Newsline:
- The Diversity Committee is pleased to welcome the two newest members: Anna Wong and Betty Yu. Please see our "Who is Who" link to view their profiles.
- ASHA
has a mentoring program that is targeting racial/ethnic
minority students. If you are interested in being a mentor
or a mentee, please go to: http://www.asha.org
- Students: If you are interested
in participating on the committee, please contact us.
- We would like to thank the CSHA members who attended our poster in Long Beach entitled “Current Trends from the Trenches”. We received many excellent questions and comments from the CSHA members and will be working hard to address them during the coming year. Look for more information which will be made available at the convention in Monterey!
- Members and Visitors- Please
feel free to write to us with comments and suggestions.
Thank you for your time.
Current
Projects in Progress:
During
2007-2008 the Diversity Committee is planning to:
1.
Prepare an “Issue brief” to collect data regarding the requirements of foreign trained speech language pathologists as well as benefits/concerns of such practice to be addressed in a future position paper.
2. Present a seminar at the 2008 CSHA convention in Monterey providing examples of complex clinical assessment CLD cases.
3.
Create a fourth newsletter and explore the possibility of sending an electronic version of the newsletter to reach more CSHA members.
4.
Create a hands-on resource (quick reference communication board specific to dysphagia) with translation of high demand languages for utilized during bed-side examinations.
5. Continue to develop a list of most frequently used terminology in the professions and post their equivalent terms in other languages
6. Focus on outreach to CSHA members who work with diverse populations not specifically defined by their language but rather cultural differences as well as students.
7.
Continue to build the website as a useful resource tool for CSHA members.
Facts about English Language Learners in CA Schools
Graphs of English Language Learners in CA Schools
Resources
and Information:
Academic Programs in Communication
Sciences and Disorders in California:
Bilingual
SLP and AUD Directory
Search
the ASHA database for bilingual speech-language-hearing professionals.
To
read CSHA's position statements regarding issues of diversity.
Issue
Documents
Past
and present members of the committee have prepared documents addressing
areas of diversity, including servicing the early intervention
and adult populations, choosing language of intervention, student
diversity training, and measuring cultural and linguistic proficiency
level in SLPs.
Related
Links
Look
here for over 40 links to websites relevant to the speech-language-hearing
professions that offer information regarding diversity, including
information for clients and families in other languages and
information for professionals about various cultures and languages.
Wanted:
Two positions on the Diversity Committee will be available for the 2008-2010 term. We welcome all CSHA members to apply; however, in order to have the group appropriately represent CSHA’s demographics and needs, we will give special consideration to those who specialize in servicing the hearing-impaired, LGBT, adult, Native American, African American, and/Asian populations, as well as members who provide bilingual services in a language other than Spanish. Selections will be made by Summer 2008. Please let us know of your interest at any time. For more information regarding requirements and responsibilities contact the current chair.
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