Section Four: The Culture of Speech-Language Pathology

Speech-language pathology is a culture. Let’s use our accumulating knowledge about culture, and our models for discussing culture, language, and identity, to consider our profession itself.

Speech-language pathologists have shared professional ancestors, a shared professional language, and shared professional tendencies, just as any other group of people might have.
What underlying assumptions about ourselves and about other people have shaped the culture of speech-language pathology in the U.S.?
We tell ourselves a range of stories, as we consider our profession’s “culture about culture.” How do our stories affect our behaviors?

Two women sitting at a conference table, one laughing with a laptop open in front of her. Another woman is gesturing while speaking. A blurred person is in the foreground.

What do we believe?

What do we do?

Why?

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Section Four: The Culture of Speech-Language Pathology

Module 12: A Cultural History of Speech-Language Pathology

Module 13: Assumptions About Culture, Language, and Identity in Speech-Language Pathology

Module 14: Stories About Culture, Language, and Identity in Speech-Language Pathology

What do we believe?

What do we do?

Why?

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