Learn More About Addressing Systemic Racism and Institutional Inequities in CSD

The following includes links to articles in The ASHA Leader, episodes of the ASHA Voices podcast, and research that was published in ASHA's peer-reviewed scholarly journals. 

Academia

• (members, sign in) “I Truly Feel Like I Have Been Hustling on My Own”: Minority Graduate Students' Experiences in Communication Sciences and Disorders Programs (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 8/15/22)
• ASHA Voices: SLPs Tell Their Mentorship Stories (ASHA Voices podcast, 8/4/22)
• (members, sign in) Inequity in Peer Review in Communication Sciences and Disorders (AJSLP, 7/12/22)
• ASHA Voices: HBCU Leaders Share Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Underrepresented Students in CSD (ASHA Voices podcast, 5/12/22)
• (members, sign in) The Case for Holistic Review in Communication Sciences and Disorders Admissions (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 4/14/22)
• (members, sign in) Do No Harm: Graduate Admissions Letters of Recommendation and Unconscious Bias (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 4/14/22)
• (members, sign in) Self-Reported Perspectives on Cultural Competence Education in Speech-Language Pathology (AJSLP, 3/10/22)
• (members, sign in) Assessing Barriers to Graduate School Admission for Applicants From Underrepresented Populations in a Master's Level Speech-Language Pathology Program (AJSLP, 3/10/22)
• (members, sign in) Underrepresentation of Students From Diverse Backgrounds Entering Communication Sciences and Disorders Programs: An Investigation Into the University Student Perspective (AJSLP, 3/10/22)
• (members, sign in) Considerations for Addressing the Needs of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Speech-Language Pathology Praxis Test Takers (AJSLP, 3/10/22)
• (members, sign in) Admissions Type and Cultural Competency in Graduate Speech-Language Pathology Curricula: A National Survey Study (AJSLP, 9/23/21)
• (members, sign in) Perceptions of African American English by Students in Speech-Language Pathology Programs (AJSLP, 9/23/21)
• (members, sign in) The Impact of Racism, Power, Privilege, and Positionality on Communication Sciences and Disorders Research: Time to Reconceptualize and Seek a Pathway to Equity (AJSLP, 9/23/21)
• (members, sign in) Time to Act: Confronting Systemic Racism in Communication Sciences and Disorders Academic Training Programs (AJSLP, 9/23/21)
• (members, sign in) Student Stories: Microaggressions in Communication Sciences and Disorders (AJSLP, 9/23/21)
• (members, sign in) Faculty of Color in Communication Sciences and Disorders: An Overdue Conversation (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 8/20/21)
• (members, sign in) Developing, Implementing, and Learning From a Student-Led Initiative to Support Minority Students in Communication Sciences and Disorders (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 8/20/21)
• (members, sign in) A Proposed Framework for Increasing Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Communication Sciences and Disorders Academic Programs: The REAP Model (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 8/20/21)
• (members, sign in) Exploring Outcomes of an Asynchronous Learning Module on Increasing Cultural Competence for Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Students (AJSLP, 5/14/21)
• Shifting the Paradigm from Disciplining Black Students to Cultural Responsiveness (The ASHA Leader, 2/24/21)
• (members, sign in) The Case for Holistic Review in Communication Sciences and Disorders Admissions (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 1/29/21)
• SLP Makes a Mission of CSD Diversity (The ASHA Leader, 1/12/21)
• From Research Outsider to Cultural Ally (The ASHA Leader, 1/8/21)
• Holistic Admissions: From Paper File to Live Interview (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 12/29/20)
• Working at Diversity Awareness in Higher Education (ASHA Voices, 8/13/20)
• George Castle Talks Mentoring and Race in Speech-Language Pathology (ASHA Voices, 6/25/20)
• The Benefits of Joining Professional and Student Groups and Communities (The ASHA Leader, 6/11/20)

Schools, K–12

• ASHA Voices: Dialects in the Classroom (ASHA Voices podcast, 2/3/22)
• (members, sign in) Turn the Page, Speech-Language Pathologists: Adequate, Authentic, and Accurate Representation as a Consideration in the Selection of Picture Books for Use in Treatment (LSHSS, 10/18/21)
• An SLP Focuses on Black Children’s Language Development (The ASHA Leader Live, 10/5/21)
• Expanding Our Views on Behavior and Black Students: A Call to Action (The ASHA Leader, 2/22/21)
• (members, sign in) Teachers' Content Knowledge and Pedagogical Beliefs Regarding the Use of African American English (LSHSS, 1/19/21)
• (members, sign in) A Decade of Disproportionality: A State-Level Analysis of African American Students Enrolled in the Primary Disability Category of Speech or Language Impairment (LSHSS, 4/23/19) 
• (members, sign in) Does Speaker Race Affect the Assessment of Children's Speech Accuracy? A Comparison of Speech-Language Pathologists and Clinically Untrained Listeners (LSHSS, 10/24/18)

Professional Issues

• Why Social Determinants of Health Matter So Much to Care (The ASHA Leader Live, 7/10/22)
• Honoring Backgrounds, Promoting Cultural Responsiveness (The ASHA Leader Live, 5/22/22)
• ASHA Voices: Confronting Health Care Disparities (ASHA Voices podcast, 4/1/22)
• (members, sign in) Making Race Visible in the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences: A Critical Discourse Analysis (AJSLP, 3/10/22)
• (members, sign in) Ethics and Diversity: Doing the Right Thing? (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2/11/22)
• (members, sign in) Explicit and Implicit Cognitive Processes Associated With Microaggression Endorsement (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 12/17/21)
• A Private Practitioner Propels Racial Equity in CSD (The ASHA Leader Live, 12/3/21)
• From My Perspective/Opinion: Revealing Anti-Asian Sentiment in the Classroom and Workplace (The ASHA Leader Live, 12/3/21)
• (members, sign in) Faculty of Color, Bulletproof Souls, and Their Experiences in Communication Sciences and Disorders (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 10/20/21)
• (members, sign in) Introduction to the Forum: Increasing Diversity in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Workforce, Part 1 (AJSLP, 9/23/21)
• (members, sign in) Advancing Workplace Diversity Through the Culturally Responsive Teamwork Framework (AJSLP, 9/23/21)
• From My Perspective/Opinion: Advancing Justice, Equity in the Pipeline to the Professions (The ASHA Leader, 8/5/21)
• ASHA Voices: Gender-Inclusive Language and the CSD Professional (The ASHA Leader Live, 8/5/21)
• Linguistic Advocacy for Pacific Islanders and Asians (The ASHA Leader Live, 6/30/21)
• (members, sign in) The Impact of Racism, Power, Privilege, and Positionality on Communication Sciences and Disorders Research: Time to Reconceptualize and Seek a Pathway to Equity (AJSLP, 5/21/21)
• SLP Combats COVID-19, Racism in Navajo Nation Home (The ASHA Leader Live, 3/4/21)
• ‘Hearing Care for All’: A Community Coalition Addressing Disparities (The ASHA Leader Live, 3/3/21)
• Confronting Racial Issues in the Workplace Changes Everything for 2 SLPs (ASHA Voices, 11/19/20)
• Seeing Race Through Another's Eyes: Two SLPs Do the Work (The ASHA Leader, 11/9/20)
• Moving Forward as a Profession in a Time of Uncertainty (The ASHA Leader, 8/10/20)
• Standing Up, Speaking Out for Racial Justice (The ASHA Leader, 8/10/20)
• What Lies Beneath: What It Means to be a Black SLP (The ASHA Leader, 6/24/20)
• On Racial Disparities, Truth, and Reconciliation: An Invitation (The ASHA Leader, 6/23/20)
• University-High School Partnership Seeks to Attract More Minority Students (The ASHA Leader, 6/6/20)
• Addressing Disparities in the Wake of Injustice, Violence, and COVID-19 (The ASHA Leader, 6/1/20)
• Ijeoma Oluo Talks Race, Conversation, and Microaggressions (ASHA Voices, 2/13/20)
• What Are Micro-Aggressions? While Celebrating Multicultural Milestones, Convention Highlights the Work Before Us (The ASHA Leader, 11/22/19)
• Now Hiring: Black Male SLPs (The ASHA Leader, 9/1/19)

Clinical Services

• (members, sign in) Black Children With Developmental Disabilities Receive Less Augmentative and Alternative Communication Intervention Than Their White Peers: Preliminary Evidence of Racial Disparities From a Secondary Data Analysis (AJSLP, 9/7/22)
• (members, sign in) Analysis of Health Disparities in the Screening and Diagnosis of Hearing Loss: Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Hearing Screening Follow-Up Survey (AJA, 9/1/22)
• From My Perspective/Opinion: Embracing the Sound of Native Languages (The ASHA Leader Live, 7/5/22)
• Creating a Safe Space for Black Adults With Aphasia (The ASHA Leader Live, 6/14/22)
• Cognitive Group Tackles Racial Disparities in Dementia Prevention (The ASHA Leader Live, 5/16/22)
• (members, sign in) Speech-Language Pathologist's Race, But Not Caseload Composition, Is Related to Self-Report of Selection of Diverse Books (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 10/20/21)
• (members, sign in) Listening to Gender-Diverse People of Color: Barriers to Accessing Voice and Communication Care (AJSLP, 9/23/21)
• (members, sign in) The Influence of Linguistic Bias Upon Speech-Language Pathologists’ Attitudes Toward Clinical Scenarios Involving Nonstandard Dialects of English (AJSLP, 9/23/21)
• SLP Pioneers Research on Aphasia Rehab for African Americans (The ASHA Leader Live, 9/4/21)
• (members, sign in) Cultural and Linguistic Adaptations of Early Language Interventions: Recommendations for Advancing Research and Practice (AJSLP, 5/18/21)
• Consider a Cultural Audit (The ASHA Leader Live, 5/12/21)
• Responding to Culturally Insensitive Test Items (The ASHA Leader Live, 5/4/21)
• How Do We Expand Hearing Care to Diverse, Underserved Groups? (ASHA Voices podcast, 2/25/21)
• (members, sign in) Systems of Oppression in Geriatric Clinical Service Delivery (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2/23/21)
• (members, sign in) The Complexity of Health Disparities: More Than Just Black–White Differences (Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2/23/21)
• Cultural Responsiveness Through Story and Self-Reflection (ASHA Voices, 1/21/21)
• My Crash Course in Cultural Differences in Home Health (The ASHA Leader, 1/11/21)
• BLLING: Learning as Belonging (The ASHA Leader, 1/6/21)
• Pam Wiley on Community Conversations About Policing and Race (ASHA Voices, 9/17/20)
• Language and Identity—Shifting Away from a Deficit Perspective on African American English (ASHA Voices, 2/27/20)
• An Informed Lens on African American English (The ASHA Leader, Jan./Feb. 2020)
• Don’t Get It Twisted—Hear My Voice (The ASHA Leader, Jan./Feb. 2020)
• ASHA Voices Podcast Premiere: Communication Disorders and the Justice System (The ASHA Leader, 9/11/19)
• 5 Quick Tips for Selecting Clinical Materials to Respect Clients’ Cultural Backgrounds (The ASHA Leader, 4/2/19)
• ‘Tolerance’ Is Not Enough (The ASHA Leader, 8/1/17)