Volume 15, Number 3, Winter 2020

In Response to ASHA

AUTHOR:

• Patrice Hampton, B.S., Department of Communicative Disorders, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

Racism is unfair, unequal, and it could even be considered unethical. There is not an association in the world that should tolerate racism. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (ASHA) initial stance against racism was subtle and misleading. As an African American, I was shocked at how ASHA issued the statement regarding racism as well as the lack of thought that was put into the statement. They left out a lot of information and their follow-up statement did not provide much clarification.

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