Projects on Multicultural Activities

Grant Projects

Consumer Materials | Professional Development | Professional Preparation of Students | Recruitment into the Professions | Service Delivery Models and Assessment: Audiology, SLP, African American Populations, Native American Populations, and Spanish-Speaking Populations | Working with Interpreters

Consumer Materials

• Bilingual Internet Resources on Communication Development and Disorders for Chinese-speaking Families and Professionals Serving This Population
• ¡Saber Es Poder! (Knowledge is Power!)
• Talking Fotonovelas for Low Literacy Hispanic and African American Populations

Professional Development

• 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 Web site for Multicultural Communication Sciences and Disorders
• La Familia: Developing Cultural Competence in Early Childhood Intervention
• Prereferral Intervention Team: Professional Development Consortium
• 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

Professional Preparation of Students

• Computer Practice Module for the PRAXIS Examinations in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
• 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
• 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
• Serving the Academic Needs of Students with Physical Disabilities Through Distance Learning
• Training for Research and Academic Careers in Communication Sciences and Disorders (TRACCS) 

Recruitment into the Professions

• An Experimental Recruitment Program for Minority High School Students
• Early High School Mentoring=Future Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists
• Increasing Minority Representation in Speech-Language Pathology Through BESC Program
• 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
• The Recruitment and Retention of African American Students in Communication Disorders in Historically Black Institutions

Service Delivery Models and Assessment: Audiology

• Development of Standard and Multifrequency Tympanometry Norms for Native American Children (Birth–5 years) and Young Adults
• Improving the Cultural Competence of the State of Maryland's Program in Universal Newborn Hearing Screening
• MSU/Cristo Rey Hearing Screening Collaboration

Service Delivery Models and Assessment: SLP

• Computerized Phonological Analysis of Linguistically Diverse Speech Samples
• Identifying Language Disorders in Multicultural Populations of Children
• Institute on Best Practices in Bilingual Speech Language Assessment
• The Role of Ethnicity in Pragmatic Assessment: Clinical Applications
• The Validation of a Language Use Questionnaire across Bilingual Clinical Populations
• Using Dynamic Assessment in Eligibility Determination

Service Delivery Models and Assessment: African American Populations

• Home Literacy Experiences of African American and Hispanic-Preschool Children
• 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

Service Delivery Models and Assessment: Native American Populations

• 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

Service Delivery Models and Assessment: Spanish-Speaking Populations

• An Expansion of a Multicultural Case for IntaSim
• Developing a Resource CD-Rom for Teaching Multicultural Issues and for Spanish-Speaking Populations
• Digital Treatment Materials for Intervention in Spanish and English
• Enhancing Language and Literacy Skills with Linguistically Diverse Learners
• 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
• 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
• Spanish Intelligibility Test

Working with Interpreters

• Collaborating with Interpreters and Translators in Assessing English Language Learners (ELL) Who May Have Speech-Language Impairments: Defining Best Practices
• Joint Training of Bilingual Interpreters and Speech Pathology Students

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