Previously Funded Grant Projects on Multicultural Activities
The grant program for projects on multicultural activites provides support for the infusion of multiculturalism into our clinical, educational, and professional programs; and the activities of allied/related associations and organizations.
Congratulations to our recent awardees!
2023 Funded Projects on Multicultural Activities
Birds of a Feather Flock Together: Implications of and Solutions for Homophily in Communication Sciences and Disorders
Erin Meier, Northeastern University
Shannon Sheppard, University of Washington–Seattle
Measuring Total Vocabulary in Mandarin–English Bilingual Toddlers Using Parent Checklists: Initial Reference Data and Psychometric Properties
Ling-Yu Guo, University at Buffalo–SUNY
Preschool Autism Communication Education (PACE): Pragmatic Language for Autistic Children in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Educational Settings
D’Jaris Coles-White, Western Michigan University
Undergraduate CSD Recruitment: Identifying the Most Effective Strategy to Recruit Minority Students
Brooke Holt, Sena Crutchley, Joya Robertson and Emily Hamuka, University of North Carolina–Greensboro
2022 Funded Projects on Multicultural Activities
Retaining Underrepresented Students in CSD: A Model for CSD Faculty
Mariam Abdelaziz, North Carolina Central University
Perry Flynn, University of North Carolina–Greensboro
Ishara Ramkissoon, Gallaudet University
Supporting Outcomes & Healthcare Access to Refugees (SOAR): An interprofessional training program for CSD students
Jamie Desjardins and Stephanie McMillen, Syracuse University
Training Monolingual Clinicians on Language Assessment for Bilingual Mandarin–English Speaking Children via Teletherapy
Yao Du, University of Southern California
Establishing an emotional narrative database of bilinguals: A cultural-linguistic research experience program
Pak Wing (Jacky) Lam, University of North Texas
This list of funded projects includes sections on:
- Consumer materials
- Interprofessional practice (IPP)
- Professional development
- Professional preparation of students
- Recruitment into the professions
- Service delivery models and assessment
- Working with interpreters
Consumer Materials
- An nou pale: Helping Haitian Families and Professionals Understand Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Bilingual Early Language-Literacy Acquisition for Latino, Chinese and Korean Children
- Bilingual Internet Resources on Communication Development and Disorders for Chinese-speaking Families and Professionals Serving This Population
- ¡Comunico con mi Equipo!
- ¡Saber Es Poder! (Knowledge is Power!)
- Talking Fotonovelas for Low Literacy Hispanic and African American Populations
- ¡Todavía Soy Yo! Aphasia Film Project for Hispanic Persons with Aphasia
Interprofessional Practice (IPP)
- Developing Values and Ethics for Effective Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
- Increasing Cultural Competence With LGBTQ Parents and Their Children: An IPE Approach
- Phonological Awareness Training for Educators of Diverse, Low-Income Children
- Professional Development to Support Educators Working Above the Arctic Circle
- Training to Enhance Services for ELLs (TESELL)
- Voice Affirming Communication Therapy for Transgender Clients: Interprofessional Collaboration between Speech-Language Pathology and Counseling Graduate Students
Professional Development
- Adding Confidence to our CCCs: Identifying Barriers and Providing Solutions to Strengthen SLPs’ Service of Bilingual Children
- Barriers Influencing Minority Clients' Access to Speech Pathology and Audiology Services
- Bilingual/Multicultural Clinical Training in Speech-Language Pathology
- Clinical Decision Making with Linguistically Diverse Learners: A Statewide Professional Training Model
- Clinical Decision Making with Linguistically Diverse Learners: A National Web-Based Training Program
- Institute on Best Practices in Bilingual Speech Language Assessment
- Internet Website for Multicultural Communication Sciences and Disorders
- La Familia: Developing Cultural Competence in Early Childhood Intervention
- Prereferral Intervention Team: Professional Development Consortium
- Promoting Cultural Competence and Language Readiness through a Web-based Training Course
- Promoting a Global Mindset in CSD Internet-based Learning Course
- Providing Speech-Language Pathologists Materials and Research: Issues of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Populations
- Three Saturdays in January: Workshops to Increase Clinical Knowledge for Work with Latino Clients
- Training of Speech-Language Pathologists in Multicultural Vocal Characteristics
- Training SLPs in the Pacific: Assessment Tool for Hawaiian Creole
Professional Preparation of Students
- Computer Practice Module for the PRAXIS Examinations in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
- The Culturally S.M.A.R.T. (Student Multicultural Awareness & Research Training) Project
- Defining Your Own Cultural Mission in the Fields of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology-Improving Leadership
- Developing Clinical Leadership Skills Among SLP Students From Diverse Backgrounds
- Discussions on Diversity: An Inter-campus, Problem-based, Case-method Approach to Develop Sensitivity to and Knowledge of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
- Graduate Level Online Bilingual Literacy Module
- Innovative Mentoring and Professional Advancement through Cultural Training (IMPACT)
- Multicultural Presence and Understanding: A Model for Mentoring Undergraduate Students in Speech-Language Pathology
- A Multicultural Union: Minnesota State University, Moorhead and the White Earth Tribal and Community College (WETCC), Mahnomen, MN
- Nizhónigo 'óho 'aah baazhniyá: Reaching Our Graduate Educational Goal Through Speech-Language Pathology
- Pathway to Excellence: Increasing the Number, Diversity and Cultural Competence of the Membership
- Serving the Academic Needs of Students with Physical Disabilities Through Distance Learning
- Training for Research and Academic Careers in Communication Sciences and Disorders (TRACCS)
- Web-Based Resources: Strengthening Cultural Competence Among Students and Faculty
Recruitment into the Professions
- Addressing Health and Educational Inequities in Tribal Communities Through Targeted Recruitment of American Indian and Alaska Native Early College Students: A Pilot Project
- An Experimental Recruitment Program for Minority High School Students
- The Development of a Multi-Step Strategy for Promoting the Professions of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology to Racially and Ethnically Diverse Students Enrolled in Community Colleges
- Early High School Mentoring = Future Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists
- Increasing Minority Representation in Speech-Language Pathology Through BESC Program
- Professional Diversity Starts with a Diverse Student Body: Social and Institutional Barriers to Recruitment
- The Recruitment and Retention of African American Students in Communication Disorders in Historically Black Institutions
- Students Learning About Speech and Hearing (SLASH)
Service Delivery Models and Assessment
Audiology
- Addressing the Needs of Children With Limited English Proficiency During Speech Recognition Threshold Evaluation
- Development of Standard and Multifrequency Tympanometry Norms for Native American Children (Birth-5 years) and Young Adults
- Effects of Nonlinear Frequency Compression on Performance of Individuals Who Speak Mandarin Chinese and Have Hearing Loss
- Improving the Cultural Competence of the State of Maryland's Program in Universal Newborn Hearing Screening
- Increasing Communication Effectiveness Between Monolingual English-Speaking Audiologists and Their Spanish-Speaking Patients
- MSU/Cristo Rey Hearing Screening Collaboration
- Sentence Test Materials Developed for Non-native Speakers of English
SLP
- Assessing Speech-Language Pathology Services for CLD Adults in Neurorehabilitation
- BiTech: A Bilingual Academic Vocabulary Approach for Latino Preschoolers
- Computerized Phonological Analysis of Linguistically Diverse Speech Samples
- Cultural and Linguistic Guidelines for Language Evaluation of Arab-American Children Using the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF)
- Cultural Competence for Clinicians Serving a Diverse Population with Aphasia
- Development of a Free, Online, Interactive Naming Therapy for Bilingual Aphasia
- Development of Language and Cognitive Assessment Protocols, and Linguistic Resources for Multicultural/Multilingual Vulnerable Seniors Living in Poverty
- The Dynamics of Assessment: Rethinking Current Practice
- Háblame Bebé (Talk to me Baby): Reducing the Word Gap and Promoting Bilingualism in Low-Income Hispanic Children
- Identifying Language Disorders in Multicultural Populations of Children
- Improve AAC Accessibility for People with Aphasia from Diverse Linguistic Backgrounds
- Institute on Best Practices in Bilingual Speech Language Assessment
- Intensive Literacy Enrichment for Diverse Populations (I-LEAD): A Summer Literacy Program for Low-Income Children With Hearing Loss
- A Mixed Methods Cross-Cultural Investigation of Conversational Turn-Taking in Families of Children With Hearing Loss
- Online Resources for the Vietnamese Language: Assessment Tools, Learning Modules, and Databank
- Percent Grammatical Utterances in Mandarin–English Bilingual Children: Initial Reference Data and Psychometric Properties
- Rethinking Speech and Language Screenings for Head Start Preschoolers in Mississippi
- The Role of Ethnicity in Pragmatic Assessment: Clinical Applications
- Role of First Language Differences on English Language Measures Used in Adult Neurorehabilitation
- Testing the Speakaboo App in Hindi—International Collaboration for Enhancing the Assessment of Speech Disorders in Bilingual Children
- Using Dynamic Assessment in Eligibility Determination
- The Validation of a Language Use Questionnaire across Bilingual Clinical Populations
African American Populations
- Home Literacy Experiences of African American and Hispanic-Preschool Children
- Intrinsic Motivation Through Cultural Interactive Storytelling—Increasing Literacy Skills in Young African American Males at Risk for or Experiencing Language and Literacy Delays
- Language and Literacy Skills Among African American Children: A Pilot Study
- Narrative Abilities in AAE Speaking Preschoolers: A Clinical Research Training Model
- Outcomes for African Americans with Chronic Non-Fluent Aphasia
- Project CLASS: Classroom-based Language Services for Multicultural Populations
Native American Populations
- Addressing Health and Educational Inequities in Tribal Communities Through Targeted Recruitment of American Indian and Alaska Native Early College Students: A Pilot Project
- Development of Standard and Multifrequency Tympanometry Norms for Native American Children (Birth-5 years) and Young Adults
- Dine’ é yaa dahónóódzijt: Understanding the Navajo: Language, People and Culture
- Project Hózhó
- YUP'IK Baby Book Project
Spanish-Speaking Populations
- An Expansion of a Multicultural Case for IntaSim
- Bilingual Early Language-Literacy Acquisition for Latino, Chinese, and Korean Children
- Bilingual Performance on an Object and Action Battery: Preliminary Normative Data in Spanish and English
- BiTech: A Bilingual Academic Vocabulary Approach for Latino Preschoolers
- Characterizing Speech Disfluencies in Bilingual (Spanish–English) Children
- ¡Comunico con mi Equipo!
- Developing a Resource CD-Rom for Teaching Multicultural Issues and for Spanish-Speaking Populations
- Development of Language and Cognitive Assessment Protocols, and Linguistic Resources for Multicultural/Multilingual Vulnerable Seniors Living in Poverty
- Digital Treatment Materials for Intervention in Spanish and English
- Enhancing Language and Literacy Skills with Linguistically Diverse Learners
- Evidenced-based Language Screening Procedures for Young Spanish Speakers (ELYSA)
- Háblame Bebé (Talk to me Baby): Reducing the Word Gap and Promoting Bilingualism in Low-Income Hispanic Children
- Home Literacy Experiences of African American and Hispanic-Preschool Children
- Increasing Awareness: Communication Disorders Among Hispanics
- Institute on Best Practices in Bilingual Speech Language Assessment
- Phonological Characteristics of a 4–5 year old Spanish and Spanish-English Speakers
- Phonological Development of Bilingual Spanish and English Speaking Children
- Preparing Read It Again–Dual Language (RIA-DL) for On-line Dissemination
- Prevention and Early Literacy: A Screening Program for English Language Learners with Language Impairment
- Phonological Development in Sequential Child Dual Language Learners
- Recursos/Resources for Speech-Language Pathologists: A Focus on Latino Children
- Socialization of Young Children From Mexican Families
- Spanish Intelligibility Test
- Supporting Acquisition of Language and Literacy through School-Home Based Activities (SALSA)
