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Join A/Professor Anita Wong and new Honours graduate Joyce Cai present this Clinical Bite on working with multilingual families focusing on how we can be more culturally sensitive.
Children learn language from adult input and interactions provided in social contexts. Much of what we know about adult input and interactions comes from English-speaking children in Western countries. When we work with families from diverse backgrounds, how can we be more culturally responsive? In this presentation, we will share some prompts that guide reflection of our practice. We will discuss key strategies that clinicians can take away to apply in their practice.
Learning objectives
Upon successful completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
- identify potential personal biases when working with families from diverse backgrounds
- explain linguistic and behavioural differences across cultures using the cultural dimensions framework
- design culturally responsive guiding questions that invite diverse perspectives from parents
- demonstrate critical reflective skills when working with families from cultures different from our own.
The research that forms part of this workshop will also be presented at the 2025 SPA National Conference. This Clinical Bite will focus more on the applications of the findings, resources and insights obtained in the process.
Presenters
Associate Professor Anita Mei Yin Wong
As an ASHA certified speech-language pathologist, Dr. Wong has worked with English-speaking children in the US, and with children from non-English speaking backgrounds in Canada. Until June 2022, she engaged in research and speech-language pathology education at the University of Hong Kong where Chinese and English are the official languages.
Dr Wong has a strong research record on language development and disorders, Developmental Language Disorder in particular, and early reading development in Cantonese-speaking children. Her current research interests are language disorders and intervention in English speaking and children from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Ms Joyce Jie Cai
Ms Cai is a 2024 graduate of the University of Sydney with First Class Honours. Being a proficient Mandarin-English bilingual speech-language pathologist, Ms. Cai is passionate about working with children and families from diverse cultural backgrounds.
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Pricing details:
- Members: $49
- Non-Members: $74