This website is a work-in-progress of the graduate students in Speech-Language Pathology at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. It is intended to be a resource for SLPs in the Portland area working with individuals from a different cultural and/or linguistic background than their own. It differs from many resources because we are including cultural background information as well as linguistic information, realizing that valid assessment & intervention for communication disorders can not be taking the same tools and translating them to a new language, rather the whole approach to the disorder will be culturally embedded.
Disclaimer: This site is a work in-progress that is being developed slowly. Students in the Multicultural Topics in Communication Sciences and Disorders graduate course are the contributors to this site under the direction of Christina Gildersleeve-Neumann. If you have suggestions for further topics or would like to comment on content, please contact Dr. Gildersleeve-Neumann, Associate Professor, Speech & Hearing Sciences, Portland State University, cegn@pdx.edu