Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning Defined
ASHA Voices: Cultural Responsiveness Through Story and Self-Reflection
January 21, 2021
Additional Resources
Disability critical race theory: Exploring the intersectional lineage,
emergence, and potential futures of DisCrit in education
Annamma, S. A., Ferri, B. A., & Connor, D. J. (2018)
Review of Research in Education
Connecting universal design for learning with culturally responsive
teaching (PDF)
Kieran, L., & Anderson, C. (2018)
Education and Urban Society
What is culturally responsive teaching?
Best Colleges
Provides a short, basic overview of CRT
and contrasts traditional teaching with culturally responsive teaching.
Cultural humility in CSD Education (PDF)
Ginsberg, S.M & Mayfield-Clarke, A.B.
Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences & Disorders
Pedagogy and power: A need for comprehensive anti-racist curriculum in
CSD training (PDF)
Khamis Dakwar, R.
Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences & Disorders
Addressing racism in communication sciences and disorders (CSD):
Implicit bias in CSD education (PDF)
Sanders, S.
Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences & Disorders
Evidence and argument podcast
Humbert, I. & Harold, M.
A podcast from two
scientists in speech–language pathology, passionate about the connection
among evidence, practice, and ethics in our field and beyond.
Cultural humility in CSD Education (PDF)
Ginsberg, S.M & Mayfield-Clarke, A.B.
A
presentation about cultural humility specific to CSD education
Multicultural education: Issues and perspectives
Banks, J. A., & Banks, C. A. (2019)
John Wiley & Sons
There is a wide and growing ethnic, cultural, social-class, and
linguistic gap between many of the nations teachers and their students.
Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives, 9th edition, is designed
to help current and future educators acquire the concepts, paradigms, and
explanations needed to become effective practitioners in culturally,
racially, linguistically, and social-class diverse classrooms and schools.
An important goal of the 9th edition is to help educators attain a
sophisticated understanding of the concept of culture and to view race,
class, gender, social class, and exceptionality as interacting concepts
rather than as separate and distinct.
Culturally responsive teaching in higher education: What professors
need to know
Larke, P. (2019)
Counterparts
Information
regarding the history, rationale, and definition of culturally responsive
teaching and guidance for how to effectively implement culturally responsive
teaching.
Culturally responsive practices in speech, language, & hearing
sciences
Hyter, Y. D., & Salas-Provance, M. B. (2019)
Plural Publishing
Culturally Responsive Practices in Speech, Language, and Hearing
Sciences is unique in that it provides an innovative perspective on
cultural competence in the field of communication sciences and disorders. It
is imperative for speech-language pathologists and audiologists to be aware
of diverse aspects of globalization: how these aspects may affect their own
knowledge, strengths and biases, service provision, their clients’ lives, as
well as their clients’ relationships to service providers. The purpose of
this text is to facilitate the creation of knowledge and the development of
attitudes and skills that lead to culturally responsive practices. The text
presents a conceptual framework to guide speech-language pathologists and
audiologists toward cultural competence by becoming critically engaged users
of culturally responsive and globally engaged practices. The text is focused
on speech-language pathology and audiology, but also draws from theoretical
frameworks in other disciplines for an inter-professional, transdisciplinary
and macro practice perspective, and is appropriate for other allied health
professions. This information will help students and professionals build
their own conceptual framework for providing culturally and linguistically
responsive services, and engage with others globally.
Teaching about race and racism in the college classroom: Notes from a
white professor
Kernahan, C. (2019)
West Virginia University Press
Teaching about race and racism can be a difficult business. Students
and instructors alike often struggle with strong emotions, and many people
have robust preexisting beliefs about race. At the same time, this is a
moment that demands a clear understanding of racism. It is important for
students to learn how we got here and how racism is more than just
individual acts of meanness. Students also need to understand that
colorblindness is not an effective anti-racism strategy. In this book, Cyndi
Kernahan argues that you can be honest and unflinching in your teaching
about racism while also providing a compassionate learning environment that
allows for mistakes and avoids shaming students. She provides evidence for
how learning works with respect to race and racism along with practical
teaching strategies rooted in that evidence to help instructors feel more
confident. She also differentiates between how white students and students
of color are likely to experience the classroom, helping instructors provide
a more effective learning experience for all students.
Advocacy and Allyship
Additional Resources
EdJustice
National Education Association (NEA)
NEA EdJustice
engages and mobilizes activists in the fight for racial, social and economic
justice in public education. Readers will find timely coverage of social
justice issues in education and ways they can advocate for our students, our
schools, and our communities.
Center for Civic Engagement: Assessment and Evaluation
Instruments
Illinois State University
The resources on the website
can be used to assess individual student learning and civic growth as well
as program or course learning outcomes. Assessing student civic
knowledge, skills, disposition, and engagement is an ongoing process that
involves ongoing (and sometimes informal) formative assessments and student
reflections on what they are learning and experiencing. The resources
provided below will better equip you to help your students participate in
the assessment process so they can grow in their learning and civic
engagement.
Combatting Microaggressions: How Can I Help?
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
In
this course – which is broken into six 5-minute blocks – speaker Noma
Anderson explores practical strategies to eliminate interpersonal and
institutional microaggressions and to champion fairness, equity, and
inclusion for nondominant groups within our professions and the broader
society.
Intersections: Activating Allyship
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
This allyship training resource can be used to listen to perspectives,
and practice speaking up and calling people in.
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a
Good Ancestor
Saad, L.F. (2020)
Updated and expanded from the
original workbook (downloaded by nearly 100,000 people), this critical text
helps you take the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural
contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded
definitions, examples, and further resources, giving you the language to
understand racism, and to dismantle your own biases, whether you are using
the book on your own, with a book club, or looking to start family activism
in your own home.
Culturally Responsive Supervision
Additional Resources
Multiple relations in supervision: Guidance for administrators,
supervisors, and students
Professional Psychology: Research and Practice
Gottlieb, M.C., Robinson, K., & Youngren, J.N. (2007)
Listening to ethnic minority AAMFT approved supervisors: Reflections on
their experiences as supervisees.
Journal of Systemic Therapies
Hernández, P., Taylor,
B., & McDowell, T. (2009)
Attn supervisors: Reframe your thinking about cultural diversity (SIG
11)
Edrich, M., & Subramanian, A.
This webinar focuses
on the impact of diversity on the supervisory relationship and the
importance of cultural competence in clinical supervision. Speakers examine
the influence that language, labeling, stereotyping, and implicit bias have
on the supervisor and supervisee, as well as discuss strategies and
techniques to improve cultural competencies for supervising SLPs and
audiologists. The webinar reviews the literature on diversity and cultural
competence in supervision; discusses biases, power imbalance, cultural
humility, and self-analysis; and includes case studies and activities that
provide supervisors an opportunity to consider their own cultural identity
and ways in which this identity influences their supervisory alliance.
Culturally Responsive Mentoring
Additional Resources
Cultural Competence Check-Ins
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Cultural
competence, cultural humility, and culturally responsive services all are
vital components to each professional interaction. ASHA has developed
resources to help you reflect on your current level of cultural competence
to improve service delivery.
Addressing racism in CSD education: Support systems for
underrepresented students
Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences and Disorders
Fuse, A., & Bergen, M.
Webinar session presented as part of
the webinar “Addressing Racism in CSD Education” with the learner outcomes
that participants will be able to identify multiple challenges students from
underrepresented groups may experience in CSD programs and to describe two
or more programs which can be implemented to support students from
underrepresented groups.
Modeling Cultural Competence
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
We
want the best possible outcomes for our clients/patients/students. For most,
this means working across a wide range of populations, including cultural
and linguistic backgrounds, that may not be a match to yours. And, even if
you are from the same background, that doesn’t mean that you share the same
beliefs, values and systems. With so many variables to consider, how do you
get the best outcomes? Does clinical competence require cultural competence
or is there something more to it?
Culturally Responsive Research
Additional Resources
Culturally responsive experimental intervention studies: The
development of a rubric for paradigm expansion.
Review of Educational Research
Bal, A., & Trainor,
A.A. (2016)
What is the role of culture, diversity, and community engagement in
translational science?
Translational Behavioral Medicine
Graham, P., Kim, M.,
Clinton-Sherrod, A., Yaros, A., Richmond, A., Jackson, M., &
Corbie-Smith, G. (2016)
Lost in translation: Methodological considerations in cross-cultural
research.
Child Development
Pena, E. (2007)
Multi-cultural issues: Considerations for conducting culturally
responsive research in gifted education
Gifted Child Today
Whiting, G.W., Ford, D.Y.,
Grantham, T.C., & Moore, J.L. III (2008)
Evidence of the proven effectiveness of culturally responsive education
and ethnic studies in schools
Culturally Responsive Edcuation (CRE) Hub
Engaging in Anti-racist, Culturally Responsive Research
Practices
Institute of Education Sciences
“Attention to racial
and ethnic gaps in education has not led to a significant improvement in
minoritized children’s educational access, experiences and outcomes.
Specifically, there has been limited attention to racism and systemic
inequities, beyond poverty, in the research enterprise focused on
educational disparities. We are at a moment of time where educational
research can be transformed by explicitly centering race and racism (in all
of its forms and consequences). This interactive session will engage with
participants on how educational research focused on children can be
decolonized, focused on racial equity, and incorporate asset-framing for
minoritized children, families, and educators.”
Culturally Responsive Practices in Qualitative Research.
Obamehinti, F.
Culturally Responsive Research Framework (PDF)
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
Culturally Responsive Service Delivery
Additional Resources
Language and Literacy Strategies for Indigenous Children: A Scoping
Review.
Seminars in Speech and Language
Guiberson, M. &
Vining, C.B. (2023)
Multilingual children’s speech.
McLeod, S.
Charles Sturt University
This
website provides a list of resources including an ASHA-adopted theoretical
framework, freely-available tools, descriptions of published research, and
also a position statement that informs culturally responses research and
practices useful also in guiding classroom teaching.
Language disorders in bilingual children and adults.
Kohnert, K., Ebert, K. D., & Pham, G. T. (2013)
Plural Publishing
Language Disorders in Bilingual Children and
Adults, Third Edition, provides speech-language pathologists, advanced
students in communication disorders programs, and clinical language
researchers with information needed to formulate and respond to questions
related to effective service delivery to bilingual children and adults with
suspected or confirmed language disorders. The bilinguals of interest
represent varying levels of first and second language proficiency across the
lifespan. That is, bilingualism is not determined here by proficiency in
each language, but rather by the individual’s experience or need for two
languages.
Language and literacy development: English learners with communication
disorders, from theory to application
Rosa-Lugo, L. I., Mihai, F., & Nutta, J. W. (2020)
Plural Publishing
Language and Literacy Development: English
Learners with Communication Disorders, from Theory to Application, Second
Edition brings you the most useful, up-to-date information on best practices
for English learners (ELs) with communication disorders from a variety of
backgrounds—how to conduct assessment, intervention, and progress
monitoring. The first edition of this text gave a comprehensive overview of
the theory and practice of serving ELs with communication disorders, and the
second edition is expanded to show the nuts and bolts of how to meet ELs’
needs and how professionals can support their success at school.
Working with a culturally and linguistically diverse individual with
specific learning disability
Yan, R. (2020)
IGI Global
With the constantly
rising multilingualism in the United States, cultural and linguistic
diversity is gradually becoming more and more present at schools throughout
the country. Therefore, there is a critical need for resources to support
speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to work with culturally and
linguistically diverse (CLD) clients. This case study examines a CLD client
with a diagnosis of specific learning disability (SLD). SLD is a disorder
characterized by one or more significant impairments in reading, spelling,
writing, or arithmetical skills, which are not the direct result of other
disorders or inadequate schooling. This chapter discusses approaches to
appropriately assess the client’s language skills and provides intervention
suggestions to account for the CLD nature of the client and her SLD.
The Grammar Answer Key: Short Explanations to 100 ESL Questions
Folse, K. S. (2016)
University of Michigan Press
Culturally Responsive Teaching/Pedagogy
Additional Resources
Strategies and resources for contextualizing the curriculum based on
the funds of knowledge approach: A literature review
Australian Educational Researcher
Llopart, M. &
Esteban-Guitart, M. (2017)
Teaching Queer Concepts to Graduate Students in Communication Sciences
and Disorders: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy to Foster Affirmative
Clinical Practice.
Seminars in Speech and Language
Robinson, G. C.,
Toliver-Smith, A., & Stigar, L. V. (2023, March)
Effective strategies for culturally responsive teaching
Best Colleges
Identifies four, useful strategies to
easily begin teaching in a culturally responsive manner.
Preparing for cultural diversity: Resources for teachers
Davis, M.
Edutopia
Webpage focusing on links to
resources for teachers.
Learning for justice
Southern Poverty Law Center
Learning for Justice seeks
to uphold the mission of the Southern Poverty Law Center: to be a catalyst
for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with
communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional
movements and advance the human rights of all people. We support this
mission by focusing our work with educators, students, caregivers and
communities in these areas:
- Culture and Climate
- Curriculum and Instruction
- Leadership
- Family and Community Engagement
Social Justice Toolkit
Drake University
Check out the following Toolkits for
Action on Social Justice issues. The toolkits will provide you with common
language, suggestions for reading and viewing, organizations you can choose
to support, and tips/tools for Allies.
Culturally responsive teaching: A reflection guide by Jenny Muniz
TTAC Online
Culturally Responsive Teaching: A
Reflection Guide offers a set of reflection questions that make self
appraisal, goal setting, and critical conversations across the eight
competencies more concrete. We also share research evidence that describes
the benefits of culturally responsive teaching. Now is the time to revamp
efforts to foster a culturally responsive teacher workforce. We hope this
resource enables teachers and those who support them to promote rigorous and
relevant learning that leads to the engagement, achievement, and empowerment
of all learners.
Confroting systemic racism in communication science and academic
training programs
Kendall, D., Osei-Kofi, N., Nguyen, D., & Duran, B.
UW Speech and Hearing Sciences
This link takes professionals to
an hour-long mini-lecture on the topic of confronting systemic racism in
communication science and academic training programs. It is a part of a
mini-lecture series developed by the University of Washington.
Addressing racism in CSD education: Inclusive learning in CSD
education
Sanders, S.
Webinar session presented as part of the
webinar “Addressing Racism in CSD Education” using a trauma-focused approach
to create a learning environment where all students are treated equitably,
where they have equal access to learning, and feel valued and supported in
their learning.
Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide
Suskie, L. (2018)
Jossey-Bass
Assessing Student
Learning is a standard reference for college faculty and administrators, and
the third edition of this highly regarded book continues to offer
comprehensive, practical, plainspoken guidance. The third edition adds a
stronger emphasis on making assessment useful; greater attention to building
a culture in which assessment is used to inform important decisions; an
enhanced focus on the many settings of assessment, especially general
education and co-curricula; a new emphasis on synthesizing evidence of
student learning into an overall picture of an integrated learning
experience; new chapters on curriculum design and assessing the
hard-to-assess; more thorough information on organizing assessment
processes; new frameworks for rubric design and setting standards and
targets; and many new resources.
Evaluations for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning
The classroom observation protocol for undergraduate STEM (COPUS): A
new instrument to characterize university STEM classroom
practices
CBE-Life Sciences Education
Smith, M., Jones, F.,
Gilbert, S., & Wieman, C. (2017)
Development of the gender minority stress and resilience
measure
Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
Testa, R., Habarth, J., Peta, J., Balsam, K., & Bockting, W.
(2015)
Cultural competence self-assessment checklist (PDF)
Rapworkers
This self-assessment tool is designed to
explore individual cultural competence. Its purpose is to help you to
consider your skills, knowledge, and awareness of yourself in your
interactions with others. Its goal is to assist you to recognize what you
can do to become more effective in working and living in a diverse
environment.
Syllabus review protocol
University of Southern California, School of Education, Center for Urban
Education
The objective is for the team to examine the syllabi with “fresh
eyes.” The protocol promotes reflection on how information is expressed, and
what assumptions are being made.
That’s Unheard Of: Cultural Competency Assessments
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
What’s Your C2? Gain a better sense of where you stand on the path of
cultural competence.
Identity and Experience
Additional Resources
Recruitment and Retention
Additional Resources
Personnel Preparation for Multicultural Aspects of Communication
Disorders
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Berry, J.
Daughrity, B., Fleming, V. B., Johnson, V.E., & Nunez, G.
This
course explores how instructors and clinical supervisors can prepare
students to be socially responsive, global citizens and culturally competent
clinicians.
Next Steps Summer Webinar Series: Increasing Student Diversity
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Ad Hoc
Committee To Plan Next Steps to Redesign Entry-level Education for SLPs
This webinar explores how a greater diversity of backgrounds, race and
ethnicity, and gender identity can be brought into and retained in the
profession of speech-language pathology.
