ASHA’s Board of Directors approved the Response to Racism position statement in June 2020:
ASHA explicitly condemns systemic racism and oppression, and the violent acts that took the lives most recently of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd—and so many before them. Read more.
In March 2021, ASHA issued a statement strongly condemning racism and violence against the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) strongly condemns the escalating violence against the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, most recently manifested by this week’s mass shooting in Atlanta. Read more.
Theresa Rodgers, ASHA's Immediate Past President, provided an update on ASHA's plans and progress in addressing systemic racism in the communications sciences and disorders professions in September 2020.
ASHA has had a long-standing commitment to diversity and inclusion as an association, for our membership, and for the individuals who make up the ASHA national office staff.
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ASHA Professional Development is now offering a Taking Action Against Microaggressions course series about recognizing, experiencing, witnessing, and combatting microaggressions. The course content is available for free on the Office of Multicultural Affairs website. ASHA members who want to earn CE credit may do so by subscribing to the ASHA Learning Pass.
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Ask your Representative and Senators to cosponsor the Allied Health Workforce Diversity Act of 2021 (H.R. 3320/S. 1679) to promote workplace diversity.
See more ASHA articles, podcasts, and research about addressing systemic racism.