Volume 15, Number 3, Winter 2020Journey to Cultural Competence: Perceptions of a Multicultural Course in Communication Sciences and Disorders AUTHOR:
The field of communication sciences and disorders requires multicultural content in graduate programs. This qualitative study explored student perceptions of a foundational multicultural course in its ability to increase cultural competence. The findings revealed that the student participants made growth; they gained new knowledge and skills for working with culturally and linguistically diverse clients, they critically questioned issues, and they reflected on their cultural competence journey. The results suggest that we need more than just a single multicultural course in order to better prepare speech-language pathologists to work increase cultural competence and better serve culturally and linguistically diverse clients. DOI: DOWNLOAD FULL ARTICLE
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