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- Title
Survey of Canadian Speech-Language Pathology Service Delivery to Linguistically Diverse Clients.
- Authors
D¿souza, Claudette; Bird, Elizabeth Kay-Raining; Deacon, Hélène
- Abstract
An online survey of speech-language pathologists (S-LPs) in Canada was conducted to determine the state of S-LP service delivery to linguistically diverse clients. Data from 384 respondents from across Canada were analyzed. Results indicated that a majority of S-LP respondents provide services to linguistically diverse clients; however, more than half provide services only in the language(s) they, the clinicians, speak. Several barriers to service delivery were identified as pervasive including not speaking the language(s) of their client; limited access to clinicians who did speak their client's language(s), and limited access to several key supports and resources for overcoming some of these barriers such as interpreters or assessment tools in the client's language(s). Clinicians who spoke two or more languages reported assessing and treating clients in all the clients' languages more often than did monolingual English clinicians. As well, more monolingual English respondents than speakers of two or more languages reported that not speaking the clients' language(s), not having access to interpreters, and a lack of knowledge about second language acquisition were barriers to appropriately assessing and treating linguistically diverse clients. Comparisons to data from surveys conducted in the United States (U.S.) found few differences between findings in the U.S. and findings in Canada except that a higher percentage of Canadian S-LPs reported using dynamic assessment, naturalistic observations, and language sampling. Results from this study emphasize the need to increase the number of bilingual S-LPs in Canada and to increase S-LP access to supports and resources relevant to a linguistically diverse clientele.
- Subjects
CANADA; SURVEYS; CHI-squared test; INTERNET; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; MULTILINGUALISM; CULTURAL pluralism; PROFESSIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; SPEECH evaluation; SPEECH therapists; HEALTH facility translating services; PROFESSIONAL practice; COMMUNICATION barriers; CROSS-sectional method; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology, 2012, Vol 36, Issue 1, p18
- ISSN
1913-200X
- Publication type
Article