I interviewed with a social worker last Wednesday who told me she has to educate her SLP colleagues on the nuances of African-American English. Thi...

Melanie Y. Evans CCC-SLP (Pediatric Speech Sister)

Bilingual Speech Pathologist

8 days ago

I interviewed with a social worker last Wednesday who told me she has to educate her SLP colleagues on the nuances of African-American English. This shocked me because we should be the language experts! However, I understand a lot of graduate programs do not take the time to truly teach this concept.

If you relate to this, I encourage you to take 5 minutes today to research the dialectal features of AAE! You can start here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227605544_Phonological_and_phonetic_characteristics_of_AAVE

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I interviewed with a social worker last Wednesday who told me she has to educate her SLP colleagues on the nuances of African-American English. Thi...

1 Comments

Alice Williams 7 days

Speech Therapist

Very often the experts forget that we are to be forever learning and evolving!

Samir 6 days

CEO

Thank you Alice for pointing it out that SLPs have to keep learning and evolving. I hope Liricare will help with that process with safe and fun space to learn!

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