Cultural Humility in Clinical Practice

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This course is designed to: 1) to help you develop an awareness about how race, culture, language spoken, gender identity, sexuality, disability, immigration status, and other factors shape people’s lived experiences and their ability to access 2) to develop your ability to identify malleable influences on speech and language development in typical children, such that you have an intuition about how to alter behavior to improve speech/language in clinical settings 3) to develop your ability to analyze naturalistic speech/language behaviors in typical children. For each major topic that we cover (speech development, early words, early sentence structure, morphology, later syntax, later word learning, use of language in conversation, narration, expository contexts, theories) we will cover the following information 1) Definitions of behaviors 2) Major milestones by which behaviors occur in monolingual and bilingual children 3) Processes by which the behaviors on achieved 4) Known factors that lead to individual differences in outcomes