Previously Funded Grant Projects on Multicultural Activities

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

• 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

• 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
• 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
• Identifying Language Disorders in Multicultural Populations of Children
• 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
• Rethinking Speech and Language Screenings for Head Start Preschoolers in Mississippi
• Role of First Language Differences on English Language Measures Used in Adult Neurorehabilitation
• 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

• 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
• ¡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)
• 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)

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