Battling bias: Advocating for greater understanding of multicultural and multilingual issues in speech-language pathology
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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This paper advocates for increased knowledge and understanding of multicultural
and multilingual issues in speech-language pathology and proposes linguistics as a possible
means to giving students tools to battle bias and ignorance. Despite numerous
directives by various governing bodies for change, representation of multicultural and
multilingual education in speech-language pathology programs throughout the United
States remains insufficient. Linguistics programs however, are prevalent and by nature
include discussions of dialects and language variety at all levels (phonology, syntax,
semantics, acquisition, etc.). This paper ultimately offers an analysis of the distribution
of speech-language pathology programs, evaluates the qualifications for programs
that claim to have a multicultural and/or bilingual emphasis, and describes the ways in
which linguistic training can positively impact or even further speech-language pathology
training.