Cultural humility involves orienting yourself to the cultural aspects that are most important to your client, patient, or student. It embodies an attitude of partnership that fosters curiosity and respect for the individual’s cultural practices and preferences while acknowledging areas where the clinician may lack knowledge.

This micro course examines a scenario involving an older, multilingual adult with hearing loss and the professionals working with her. The presenter shares the scenario, provides context, and then walks you through a guided reflection to help you explore questions related to cultural humility, like, “How might my personal cultural practices impact my interactions?” and “How can I develop and hone skills to recognize these situations?”

This course is the second in a series of four micro courses meant to be taken together, which explore the ways in which culture plays a critical role in every part of our work and how our own individual cultures can, and do, influence our clinical practice.

The scenario in this course comes from the book Exploring Cultural Responsiveness: Guided Scenarios for Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) Professionals.

Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:

• Define cultural humility 
• Identify how the cultural influences of all participants impact a situation

Contents

1. Defining cultural humility
2. Overview of guided reflection framework
3. Scenario: “Cognition and Hearing Loss: Gender, Generational, and Multilingual Considerations in Differential Diagnosis”
4. Notes and personal reflection
5. Guided reflection
6. Learning assessment

DEI Professional Development Requirement

This course counts toward the ASHA certification maintenance professional development requirement for DEI (which encompasses cultural competency; cultural humility; culturally responsive practice; and diversity, equity, and inclusion). See more courses that count toward this requirement or read more about professional development requirements for certification maintenance.

Presenter Information

Alicia Fleming Hamilton, MS, CCC-SLP (she/her/hers), is a bilingual (Spanish-English) speech-language pathologist who works with the Minneapolis Public Schools. She specializes in bilingual assessment in early childhood populations, bilingual clinical education and supervision, and multicultural assessment and intervention. She was the 2019 president of the Minnesota Speech-Language-Hearing Association, served on the ASHA Speech-Language Pathology Advisory Council and the ASHA Multicultural Issues Board, and currently serves on the ASHA Board of Ethics.

Financial Disclosures:

• Financial compensation from ASHA for this presentation
• Bilingual speech-language pathologist (Spanish/English), Minneapolis Public Schools

Nonfinancial Disclosures:

• Editor of Exploring Cultural Responsiveness: Guided Scenarios for Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) Professionals
• Formerly a member of the ASHA Multicultural Issues Board
• Member of the ASHA Board of Ethics

Assessment Type

Self-assessment—Think about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your new knowledge.

To earn continuing education credit, you must complete the learning assessment by March 1, 2028.

Program History and CE Information

Content origination date: January 24, 2022
End date: March 1, 2028

This course is offered for 0.05 ASHA CEUs (Introductory level, Related area).