Content
Course Description
The Amplifying Diverse Voices series will educate current and future speech-language pathologists (SLPs) on contemporary issues in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), providing (required) continuing education credits (CEs) to current SLPs. This speaker series will feature speakers who are internationally renowned for their expertise on global DEI issues, as well as speakers from the UM campus who are knowledgeable of the unique and diverse peoples and places of Montana, including its marginalized populations.
This course provides content relevant to the new ASHA requirement for diversity, equity, and inclusion. An overview of planned topics is listed in the table below.
Learning Objectives
- Identify communication attributes of marginalized populations.
- Describe strategies for appropriately serving marginalized communities in clinical settings.
- Explain how culture, language, identity, and impacts of intersectionality affect health outcomes across populations.
- Describe global inequities of health as they apply to communication sciences and disorders.
Time Ordered Agenda
January 23, 2024
Introduction to Culturally Responsive Practice: Culture and Identity by Danielle Fahey, PhD and Dana Fitzgale, EdD CCC-SLP
5:15-5:30 Refreshments provided for in-person registrants; zoom waiting room open for online registrants
5:30-6:20 Introduction to the Interaction of Culture and Identify with Language and Power in the Communication Professions
6:20-6:40 Question and Answer
6:40-7:15 Participant Activity: Cultural Background of Self and its effect on Interactions with Clients from Diverse Backgrounds
7:15-7:30 Reflection and Wrap-up
February 13, 2024
Understanding Historical Trauma and Trauma-Informed Practice by Maegan Rides At The Door, PhD, LCPC
5:15-5:30 Refreshments provided for in-person registrants; zoom waiting room open for online registrants
5:30-6:20 Historical trauma and its impact on day service provision and culturally responsive, trauma-informed practices
6:20-6:40 Question and Answer
6:40-7:15 Activity scenario of historical trauma
7:15-7:30 Reflection and Wrap-up
March 5, 2024
Creating an Inclusive Speech-Language Pathology for Trans and Non-Binary Individuals by Archie Crowley, PhD
5:15-5:30 Refreshments provided for in-person registrants; zoom waiting room open for online registrants
5:30-6:20 Language, Identity, and Voice for Transgender and Nonbinary People
6:20-6:40 Question and Answer
6:40-7:15 Case Study Discussion: Speech Language Pathology Services for Transgender and Nonbinary Clients
7:15-7:30 Reflection and Wrap-up
March 26, 2024
The bilingual speaker: Which language, when, and how? by Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva, PhD
5:15-5:30 Refreshments provided for in-person registrants; zoom waiting room open for online registrants
5:30-6:20 Cognitive and Social Aspects of the Bilingual and Multilingual Mind
6:20-6:40 Question and Answer
6:40-7:15 Interactive Analysis of Case Studies of Bilingual to Bilingual and Bilingual to Multilingual Interactions
7:15-7:30 Reflection and Wrap-up
April 23, 2024
Diverse Books and Culturally Responsive Literacy Practices by Mandy Smoker Broaddus, PhD
5:15-5:30 Refreshments provided for in-person registrants; zoom waiting room open for online registrants
5:30-6:20 Literature-grounded Indigenous Experiences and Ways of Knowing
6:20-6:40 Question and Answer
6:40-7:15 Indigenous Education for All
7:15-7:30 Reflection and Wrap-up
*This series is supported by the University of Montana Flagship Fund, the College of Health, and the School of Speech, Language, Hearing & Occupational Sciences with a grant to presenters Drs. Fitz Gale & Fahey.
ASHA CE Provider approval and use of the Brand Block does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures.