Volume 15, Number 3, Winter 2020

One of One: Addressing Feelings of Isolation among Black Students in CSD

AUTHOR(S):

  • Maddie Mayes, B.S., Master’s Student, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Miami University, Oxford, OH
  • Morgan Payne, Undergraduate Student, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Miami University, Oxford, OH
  • Amber D. Franklin, Ph. D., CCC-SLP, Associate Professor and Chief Departmental Advisor, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Miami University, Oxford, OH

ABSTRACT

Black speech-language pathologists (SLP) often join the profession for reasons rooted in community and connectedness, such as having a family member with a speech or hearing disorder or after shadowing a Black SLP from their community. Yet, for many Black SLP students at predominantly white institutions (PWI), community is often absent from their educational experience. We write this commentary as two Black students, one graduate and one undergraduate, attending a PWI, Miami University of Ohio.

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