Space for reflective practice

Welcome to this space to continue your learning. Within this space, we encourage you to engage in a reflective practice. Through this space, we aim to support you in continuing to delve into the important issues, perspectives, and approaches presented by our speaker, Warda Farah.

As you continue to engage in this process, we recommend you create a journal - either on paper or on your computer. In this journal, you might consider reflecting on: What power and power relations exist in your work and practice? How do they impact you, the individuals you provide services to, your organisation? Warda Farah highlighted that we are always in the process of becoming what future do you imagine for your work and practice? For our field?

What will you find here?

• A sketch note based on the talk

• A summary and recording of the talk

• Suggested readings to further your reflections

We would be so pleased if you would share your thoughts in an anonymised space to share back with learners along this journey together.

Summary

Our profession cannot move to the future without confronting and acknowledging its racist and colonial knowledge base. We know that children from Black backgrounds are overrepresented as having Speech & Language Impairments, due to biased assessment protocols. We know that our current models, practice base & service delivery is not good enough to bring about equitable change for these children/families. This will be a personal talk sharing my journey in trying to address the above issues and how I believe that we can all use our SLT skills to create meaningful change and social impact.

Recording of Speaker Session

Suggested Readings

The University of Alberta's Library has a wonderful set of resources for exploring Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.

https://guides.library.ualberta.ca/edi/home.

As you continue your learning, we would recommend you explore these readings.

Abrahams, K., Kathard, H., Harty, M., & Pillay, M. (2019). Inequity and the professionalisation of speech-language pathology. Professions and Professionalism, 9(3). https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/pp/article/view/3285

Listen in to Warda Farah speaking to Decolonising SLP practice on Black Brown Bilingüe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FMJTy6zPfc

Reflection Questions

Our profession cannot move to the future without confronting and acknowledging its racist and colonial knowledge base. What are the power dynamics that impact our field, our practice, our work? How can we imagine a way to shift these dynamics? Warda Farah encourages us to be CREATING, DOING, TRYING, EXPERIMENTING. What is a morsel of the future practice you imagine that you can put in place now?