
L-R: Robert McKinney, Betty Yu, Damian Huertas and Nidhi Mahendra

Ying-Chiao
Diversity
Committee Members 2008-2009:
Nidhi Mahendra (2008-2010) - nidhiaz@yahoo.com
Robert McKinney (2008-2010) - b_mck62@hotmail.com
Betty Yu (2007-2009) - bettyyu@mac.com
Damian Huertas (2008-2010) - sfsudysnomia@yahoo.com
Ying-Chiao Tsao (2008-2010) - ytsao@exchange.fullerton.edu
DIVERSITY NEWSLETTER MARCH 2009
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.
Newsline:
Current
Projects in Progress:
During
2008-2009 the Diversity Issues Committee is working on:
1.
Providing input to CSHA on its forthcoming Bilingual/Multilingual Professionals Directory, and to the Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Board (SPLAB) on guidelines for evaluating credentials and language proficiency of SLPs trained outside the United States.
2. Providing input to ASHA’s Office of Multicultural Affairs and its Multicultural Issues Board on changing state regulations in CA regarding evaluation of language proficiency and training/coursework for internationally trained speech language pathologists and audiologists.
3. Providing input to ASHA on its forthcoming document titled Guidance for Identifying and Supporting Students Who Speak English with Nonstandard Dialects or Accents.
4.
Presenting a case-based seminar at the April 2009 San Francisco State University (SFSU-NSSLHA) Professional Practices and Practical Strategies in Diverse Settings conference, with examples of best practices and challenges in assessing culturally and linguistically diverse clients.
5. Preparing one or two case-based publications (or CEU products) on a framework for cultural competence and evidence-based assessment strategies for working with CLD clients.
6. Focusing outreach and dissemination efforts towards students and NSSLHA members in CA training programs in SLP and AUD to evaluate their needs regarding training and mentoring to better serve CLD clients.
7.
Continuing to develop a glossary of most frequently used terms in SLP and their equivalent terms in select non-English languages.
8. Building our webpage and annual newsletter as a useful resource for CSHA members.
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.
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.