ASHA Diversity Quiz

Culturally and linguistically diverse clients should be seen only by those professionals who have a similar cultural/linguistic background

Bilingual speech-language pathologists and audiologists earn a different certificate of clinical competence from ASHA than monolingual audiologists and speech-language pathologists

A bilingual clinician needs to be fluent in the language spoken by the client, but does not need to understand normal language acquistion in the language spoken.

When working with same-sex parents, it is only important to get the medical information from the biological parents

There are universal gestures to indicate agreement, such as nodding the head to indicate "yes"

In Hispanic communities, it would be appropriate to initiate an assessment sharing meeting with a personal conversation rather than to immediately provide the results

Monolingual language learners and bilingual language learners should have the same emerging language milestones

The use of Africian American English is influences by many variables including?

Speech-Language and hearing difficultes are more prevalent among Native Americans

It is possible that 1%-2% of one's clients will be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered

If a family memeber or friend speaks English as well as the client's native language, and is willing to act as an interpreter, this is the best possible solution

When conducting a language assessment on a client with limited ability to speak English, which one of the follwing is LEAST useful?

Cultural and linguistic biases may occue in testing tools and have an impact on an appropraite differential diagnosis between a language disorder and a language difference. Cultural biases do not includ the following:

An audiologist must be aware of the influences of different races and ethnicities when completing an audiologic evaluation

Fitting considerations for personal assistive devices may vary across races and ethnicities