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Using Active Learning Strategies to Strengthen Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Training in Communication Sciences and Disorders Programs
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O'Fallon, Maura; Garcia, Felicidad – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2023
Purpose: Training in cultural competence is an accreditation requirement for graduate programs in communication sciences and disorders (CSD; Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, 2020). Cultural and linguistic diversity (CLD) instruction within CSD programs and current instructional models may not provide…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learning Strategies, Cultural Pluralism, Culturally Relevant Education
A Proposed Framework for Increasing Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Communication Sciences and Disorders Academic Programs: The REAP Model
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Mohapatra, Bijoyaa; Mohan, Ranjini – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2021
Purpose: Despite the growing clinical and research advances in communication sciences and disorders (CSD), health disparities persist by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status among patients. A diverse CSD workforce can improve access to services and reduce health care disparities for diverse populations. Increasing diversity of the workforce…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Racial Differences, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status
Facilitated Communication in Mainstream Schools.
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Remington-Gurney, Jane; Crossley, Rosemary – 1990
Facilitated communication is described as a method of training communication partners or facilitators to provide physical assistance to communication aid users, to help them overcome physical and emotional problems in using their aids. In Melbourne (Victoria, Australia), the DEAL (Dignity, Education and Language) Centre has identified 96 people…
Descriptors: Attendants, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Disorders, Communication Skills
Communication Access to Health and Social Services
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Parr, Susie; Pound, Carole; Hewitt, Alan – Topics in Language Disorders, 2006
This article describes the efforts of a group of people in the United Kingdom at Connect-the communication disability network-to make health and social services more communicatively accessible to people with aphasia. The project involved listening to people with aphasia talk about their experiences with health and social care services and working…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Services, Aphasia, Interpersonal Communication
An Innovative Training Project: Enhancing the Capacity of School Personnel in Maine To Promote the Use of Alternative Communication Strategies for Students with Disabilities.
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Gitlow, Lynn; Gilmer, Debbie; Mintz, Barbara; Kurtz, Alan; Bilodeau, Colette – 1998
This brief paper describes an innovative training project, the Augmentative, Assistive, and Facilitated Communication project, designed to enhance the capacity of school personnel to use alternative communication strategies with children having severe communication impairments. The project has provided training and technical assistance to school…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Disorders, Conferences, Distance Education
Development and Evaluation of the Expertise Module of a System for Training Teachers in Adapting Alternative Communication to Disabled Children.
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Mioduser, David; Waldman, Shoshi; Neventzal, Yeshayahu – Innovations in Education and Training International, 1998
Reports on part of a project aimed at creating tools for training teachers in the diagnostic and adaptation process of Alternative Augmentative Communication (AAC) systems for disabled children. Based on evaluation results the long-term objective is to add tutorial and coaching features to the system to be used in special-education training…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Children