Treatment of Adults with Cognitive and Language Disorders
What is all ethnic groups.
In general, there's a lack of agreement on what constitutes...
Best care
Involves understanding and appropriately responding to unique combination of cultural variables and the full range of dimensions of diversity that the professional and client/family bring to the interaction.
What is Cultural Competency?
What race/ethnicity are the majority of SLPs?
White females
What type of environment should we strive to create as SLPs?
What is a culturally appropriate environment for intervention.
What two factors should health care providers consider when working with patients and families?
Cultural and linguistic factors
Individuals and agencies do not seek to be “culturally destructive, but lack the capacity to help."
What is Cultural Incapacity?
What diminishes patient outcomes and overall clinical service delivery?
By the end of the 21st century, more than what percent of the U.S. population will be African, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American?
What is 50%
What should an SLP do if he/she does not feel proficient in a language of a person with aphasia?
a trained and qualified interpreter, knowledgeable with the specific requirements for speech pathology should be used
The type of cultural competency that is based on cultures in the workplace.
What is Cultural Intelligence?
What is projected to happen in 2050?
50% of the United States population will identify as a race/ethnicity other than non-hispanic or white
As an SLP, what is our goal when treating someone despite their background?
What is functional recovery, increase their quality life, and the ability to re-integrate into home and work.
Treatment should be offered in all. . .
relevant languages and the relevant modalities.
Cultural dimensions may influence eye-gaze behavior; facial expressions; body language; rules of social interaction; child-rearing practices; perceptions of mental health, health, illness, and disability; and patterns of superior and subordinate roles in relation to status by age, gender or gender identity, and class.
What is Difference vs Disorder?
Where did SLPs get the majority of their training in cultural competency?
On the job training and CEUs
How should an SLP treat someone who comes from a different ethnic background than them?
The SLP should be respectful of culturally divergent views and offer alternate solutions for health care.
Speech pathologists should explain terminology in a way . . .
That is relevant and culturally appropriate
Name the four parts of Cultural Intelligence.
What is: Drive, Knowledge, Strategy, And Action?
What is a big challenge in educating on cultural competency in academia?
Cultural mismatch