Foundations of Cultural Responsiveness
This ASHA Code of Ethics principle states that individuals shall honor their responsibility to hold paramount the welfare of persons they serve professionally.
What is Principle of Ethics I?
This model of disability affirms disability as a fundamental aspect of a person's identity, uses identity-first language, and encourages individuals to seek systemic change through civil rights laws.
What is the Identity Model?
This model, named after a 6-letter acronym, describes elements of culture/relationships that a professional should consider.
What is the VISION model?
This approach to clinical practice integrates five core values — fairness, respect, equality, dignity, and autonomy — and asserts these are privileges all human beings have regardless of social station or racialized background.
What is the Human Rights Approach?
This concept is the interaction among multiple dimensions of identity that create compounded experiences of discrimination and privilege.
What is intersectionality?
This term refers to beliefs, values, and practices shared by a group of people with similar demographic variables that are learned and transmitted socially and are constantly changing.
What is culture?
This model of disability holds that people are disabled by societal barriers and exclusion — not by impairments — and that society, not the individual, needs to change.
What is the Social Model?
This model describes five ascending levels of cultural knowledge — from knowledge of bias and stereotypes up to knowledge of value and respect.
What is the Cultural Growth Profile Model?
This human rights value refers to individuals having a say in the decision-making process of their own assessment and treatment.
What is fairness?
This is defined as the capacity of groups of people to exert control over their lives in their own interest, even amid opposition from others.
What is power?
This term indicates what practices or behaviors comprise a group's shared and deeply rooted ideals about the way things should be — for example, collectivism.
What are values?
This theoretical framework examines the intersection of race and disability and notes that students of color are more likely to be labeled disabled due to biased systems and cultural misunderstandings.
What is Disability Critical Race Studies (DisCrit)?
This theory describes this massive group-level trauma, inflicted through genocide, exploitation, and cultural disruption, that causes harm intergenerationally.
What is historical trauma?
This human rights value refers to equal access to resources and services regardless of a person's identity.
What is equality?
This form of power exertion refers to harm caused by systems and policies, such as a lack of interpreters or long waitlists for services.
What is structural violence?
This term is defined as an idea that something is true or real, or that something is not true or real — for example, that illness results from an individual's offenses and should be treated with a ritual purification ceremony.
What is a belief?
This model identifies six of these — including individualism, power distance, and masculinity — as basic issues societies must address to organize themselves.
What are dimensions of culture (Hofstede's 6-D Model of National Culture)?
This framework refers to the historically accumulated and culturally developed bodies of knowledge and skills essential for household or individual functioning and well-being.
What is Funds of Knowledge?
This concept refers to identifying and addressing inequality rather than distributing identical resources to everyone.
What is equity?
This form of power exertion refers to norms or labels that devalue groups, such as describing someone as 'low-functioning' or 'non-verbal.'
What is symbolic violence?
This term describes practices that take a client's cultural perspectives, beliefs, and values into consideration in all aspects of education or service delivery.
What is cultural responsiveness (culturally responsive practice)?
A student with a disability is labeled as “difficult” by staff, even though their challenges stem from unmet accommodations. This theory of disability highlights the concern?
What is the Social Model?
In some cultures, children are expected to defer to teachers; in others, they are encouraged to speak up. This is an example of this dimension of culture.
What is power distance.
This concept should include affirmative actions, transformative actions, redistribution of resources, and recognition of cultural differences.
What is a social justice lens?
This concept refers to unearned advantages held by some individuals, such as native English speakers navigating IEP meetings more easily than non-native speakers.
What is privilege?