Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Emerson College Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Disclosure(s):
Valerie E. Johnson, PhD, CCC-SLP: Emerson College: Financial - Salary (Ongoing); ISHA: Financial - Honoraria (Ongoing). No non-financial relationships to disclose
Abstract Recently, speech-language pathologists have been moving towards providing culturally responsive services. Culturally responsive practices include understanding, appropriately incorporating, and responding to the intersection of cultural variables that students bring with them into the classroom. However, to incorporate this appropriately, it is necessary to critically interrogate current frameworks used to enhance literacy success. This presentation will review current frameworks through a critical lens to determine how they may be reframed to support culturally responsive literacy practices with students. Summary Historically, speech-language pathology practices have been rooted in principles of a dominant culture that define communicative norms and penalize cultural and linguistic variation. School-based speech-language pathologists have adopted literacy and reading frameworks that define skills that contribute to early reading comprehension (e.g., Simple View of Reading [Gough & Tunmer, 1986; Hoover & Gough, 2000]) and that attempt to account for the interconnectedness and interdependence of language comprehension and word recognition (e.g., The Reading Rope [Scarborough, 2001]). The adoption of these frameworks that are rooted in a dominant culture have not promoted equitable assessment and intervention practices. Diverse and Equitable Practices in Language and Literacy: Part I will review traditional frameworks for language and literacy using a critically oriented and culturally grounded lens to be considered in the context for appropriately incorporating culturally responsive practices to enhance literacy success.
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Define culturally responsive practices
Describe current frameworks used to enhance literacy success
Describe how in which current frameworks can be reframed to be culturally responsive for literacy success