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.
This list of funded projects includes sections on:
- consumer materials
- Inter-Professional Practice (IPP)
- Professional development
- Professional preparation of students
- Recruitment into the professions
- Service delivery models and assessment
- Working with interpreters
Consumer Materials
- 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
Inter-Professional 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)
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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- Rethinking Speech and Language Screenings for Head Start Preschoolers in Mississippi
- 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
- 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
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)
