Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Disability Views among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations
Katandria Love Johnson, The University of North Texas Health Science Center
Presented at the Dallas Conference
ABSTRACT: An increasing number of people from various cultures live in the United States as the latest U.S. census reports that one in every three Americans belongs to a racial/ethnic minority group (Tomoeda & Bayles,2002). Provision of speech-language pathology and other public health disciplines are becoming increasingly challenging from a cultural and linguistic competency perspective. It is hopeful that data collected from interviews conducted in twelve countries will shed some light on these cultural issues, which have a profound impact on the practice of speech-language pathology and other public health disciplines when working with Brazilian, French, Latino and Italian families in the U.S. This research was designed to examine social, economic and environmental influences of communication disorders among culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) populations. Data revealed distinct similarities and differences regarding these three variables.