ASHA Leader Article

Minnesota CSD Program Formalizes Support for Students of Color

A diversity and inclusion group seeks to foster belonging and dismantle racial injustice in speech-language pathology.

This article details a program designed by Megan and Dani. This unique program received national attention.

ASHA Voices Podcast

ASHA Voices: A Conversation on Holistic Admissions.

A panel of faculty members from CSD programs discuss recruitment and retention of diverse and underrepresented CSD professionals. In this first of two parts, guests share personal experiences with and insights on holistic admissions.

ASHA Voices Podcast

ASHA Voices: Inclusion and Retention in Higher Education

The second part of our conversation on recruitment and retention of diverse and underrepresented CSD professionals. Panelists discuss creating an environment that can attract and retain a diversity of students.

Journal Articles

Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy & Cultural Humility: An Intersectional Faculty Development

A 4-week professional development course for current and future faculty is described using a lens of cultural humility, to explicitly integrate anti-oppressive pedagogy into course design.

The Cultural Flex: Advancing Social Justice in Educational Speech-Language Practices

Rooted in Black Language, the authors introduce the “culture flex” as a practice of engaging in social justice work. Social justice is necessary to carry out the vision of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: effective communication as an accessible, achievable human right for all. The purpose of this tutorial is to define and describe a multifaceted conceptual pathway toward social justice–oriented speech-language practices. The authors acknowledge and interweave their positionalities, their own social justice journeys, and educational speech-language practices experiences to explain the “cultural flex” framework as a pathway for enacting social justice.