Multicultural issues in school settings.
As the caseload of ethnically and culturally diverse students who stutter increases, speech-language pathologists will need to become more culturally sensitive. Many speech-language pathologists, however, indicate that they are not comfortable treating clients from diverse backgrounds who stutter. Busy school schedules may prevent speech-language pathologists from obtaining information about multicultural aspects of stuttering. The purpose of this article, therefore, is to provide speech-language pathologists with information that addresses multicultural perceptions about stuttering and suggestions for the assessment and treatment of stuttering in ethnically and culturally diverse groups.
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Speech-Language Pathology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Special Education and Clinical Services, Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705, USA. gmt@iup.edu
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D002648:Child; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D006801:Humans; D012572:School Health Services; D013070:Speech Therapy; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D013342:Stuttering / Q000628:therapy*