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 28, 2025
Introduction to Culturally Responsive Practice: Culture and Identity by Dana Fitzgale, EdD CCC-SLP
5:15-5:30 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 18, 2025
Understanding Historical Trauma and Trauma-Informed Practice by Maegan Rides At The Door, PhD, LCPC
5:15-5:30 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 11, 2025
Understanding Race and Bias in Healthcare through Hearing Prosthetic Design by Shade Avery Kirjava, AuD ABA-CD
5:15-5:30 zoom waiting room open for online registrants
5:30-6:20 Understand race, access to healthcare, and social determinants of health for historically marginalized populations. Equate this content to overall course objectives within the field of speech-language pathology.
6:20-6:40 Question and Answer
6:40-7:15 Focus on equitable access to skin color prosthetics for people with diverse skin tones across the range of human skin colors.
7:15-7:30 Reflection and Wrap-up
April 1, 2025
Home Literacy Environments of Multilingual Families and Bilingual Reading by Alexander Choi-Tucci, PhD, Joseph Hin Yan Lam & Alejandro Granados Vargas, M.A., CCC-SLP
5:15-5:30 zoom waiting room open for online registrants
5:30-6:20 Focus on the home literacy environments of multilingual families, and on bilingual reading
comprehension and its intervention.
6:20-6:40 Question and Answer
6:40-7:15 Explore Equitable, Valid, and Reliable assessment Principles & Methods for Identifying and
Describing Language & Literacy Difficulties in Multilingual Populations
7:15-7:30 Reflection and Wrap-up
April 22, 2025
Creation of LGBTQIA+ Identities & History by Travis Wagner, PhD
5:15-5:30 zoom waiting room open for online registrants
5:30-6:20 Use of Information & Communication Technologies in the Curation
& Creation of LGBTQIA+ Identities & History, with an Emphasis on its Impact for LGBTQIA+
6:20-6:40 Question and Answer
6:40-7:15 Explore the Representation of LGBTQIA+ History across Settings; Compare & Contrast How Representations Reflect Queer Culture & History
7:15-7:30 Reflection and Wrap-up
*This series is supported by the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ College of Health, the School of Speech, Language, Hearing & Occupational Sciences and Dr. Danielle Fahey.