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Cultural responsiveness is an approach that uses both cultural knowledge/competence and cultural humility to honor a client's culture across all aspects of their treatment and learning. Cultural responsiveness is a fluid approach and requires partnership with a client as well as self-reflection.
This micro course examines a scenario featuring a nonverbal child with autism and explores cultural beliefs surrounding the disorder and how it affects a Chinese family in the United States. The presenter shares the scenario, provides context, and then walks you through a guided reflection to help you explore questions related to cultural responsiveness, like, “What does a culturally responsive interaction look and feel like?” and “How might one situation elicit many different reactions or perceptions?”
This course is the third in a series of four micro courses meant to be taken together, which explore the ways in which culture plays a critical role in every part of our work and how our own individual cultures can, and do, influence our clinical practice.
The scenario in this course comes from the book Exploring Cultural Responsiveness: Guided Scenarios for Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) Professionals.
Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:
- Define cultural responsiveness
- Identify the feelings and emotions in a situation that impact each person’s perceptions of events
Contents
- Defining cultural responsiveness
- Overview of guided reflection framework
- Scenario: “When Collaboration Meets Contrasting Beliefs: Navigating Autism Spectrum Disorder Treatment Within Cultural Expectations”
- Notes and personal reflection
- Guided reflection
- Learning assessment
Presenter Information
Alicia Fleming Hamilton, MS, CCC-SLP (she/her/hers), is a bilingual (Spanish-English) speech-language pathologist who works with the Minneapolis Public Schools. She specializes in bilingual assessment in early childhood populations, bilingual clinical education and supervision, and multicultural assessment and intervention. She was the 2019 president of the Minnesota Speech-Language-Hearing Association, served on the ASHA Speech-Language Pathology Advisory Council and the ASHA Multicultural Issues Board, and currently serves on the ASHA Board of Ethics.
Financial Disclosures:
- Financial compensation from ASHA for this presentation
- Bilingual speech-language pathologist (Spanish/English), Minneapolis Public Schools
Nonfinancial Disclosures:
- Editor of Exploring Cultural Responsiveness: Guided Scenarios for Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) Professionals
- Formerly a member of the ASHA Multicultural Issues Board
- Member of the ASHA Board of Ethics
Assessment Type
Self-assessment—Think about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your new knowledge.
To earn continuing education credit, you must complete the learning assessment by 11:59 p.m. ET on the end date below.
Program History and CE Information
Content origination date: January 24, 2022
End date: March 1, 2028
This course is offered for 0.05 ASHA CEUs (Introductory level, Related area).
Subject code 7030
Counts toward PD requirement for ASHA certification maintenance for Content Area 2. Read more about professional development requirements for certification maintenance.
