Speech-Language Pathology in South Africa

Tuomi, Seppo K.

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“…This, in turn, has a direct impact on ‘clinical culture’ that is strongly Western and Eurocentric in nature and positioning. This Western and Eurocentric culture was reported by Tuomi as early as in 1994 where he noted how South African SLH training reflects British and North American educational models. This therefore calls for careful considerations of providing students with epistemological access rather than just physical access as well as honest debates about which epistemologies and by whom in order to disrupt this contextual toxicity.…”

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Language and culture in speech-language and hearing professions in South Africa: The dangers of a single story

Khoza-Shangase

Mophosho

2018

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BackgroundSpeech-language and hearing (SLH) professions in South Africa are facing significant challenges in the provision of clinical services to patients with communication disorders from a context that is culturally and linguistically diverse because of historic exclusions of black and African language speaking candidates in higher education training programmes. Over 20 years post the democratic dispensation, minimal changes have been noted in terms of the training, research as well as clinical service provision in these professions, although the demographic profile of students is seen to be transforming gradually.ObjectivesWe offer this viewpoint publication as a challenge to the professions to interrogate their academic and clinical orientation in respect of African contextual relevance and responsiveness.MethodWe do this by identifying gaps within the higher education context, highlighting the influencing factors to the provision of linguistically and culturally appropriate SLH training and clinical services in South Africa, while asking questions about what SLH students and practitioners need to carefully consider.ResultsWe make recommendations about what needs to happen within the SLH professions in South Africa in order to stay safe from the dangers of a single story.ConclusionWe invite debate in order to allow for constructive engagement with this complex issue within the South African SLH professions.

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Language and culture in speech-language and hearing professions in South Africa: The dangers of a single story

Khoza-Shangase

Mophosho

2018

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“…Accessing professional support as they would in their home university and clinics proved challenging for the students during the placements. This is a common difficulty for health professionals working abroad in unfamiliar cross-cultural contexts (McKenzie 1992, Tuomi 1994). The students found the lack of support particularly difficult as they had limited experience working with people with complex communication needs before the placements.…”

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“…There is information on working in cross-cultural settings (e.g. Seligman-Wine 1987, McKenzie 1992, Tuomi 1994, Boyce and Lysack 1997, Miles 1997, Roseberry-McKibbin 1997, Hartley 1998, Thorburn 1999, Sharma and Deepak 2001 and a small literature on working with people with complex communication needs from diverse cultural backgrounds (e.g. Huer 1994, Alant 1996, Hetzroni and Harris 1996, Hartley 1998, Pickering et al 1998, Pickering and McAllister 2000, Huer and Saenz 2003.…”

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Challenges for undergraduate speech pathology students undertaking cross‐cultural clinical placements

Trembath

Wales

Balandin

2005

Int J Lang Commun Disord

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The students encountered challenges related to their clinical preparation and their capacity to adapt in both a professional and personal sense. Future students preparing to undertake such placements need to attain at least minimum clinical competencies before placements. They will be helped if they have some clinical experience in working with people with complex communication needs in cross-cultural contexts, information about the cultures they will visit, and if they set professional and personal learning goals for each clinical placement. This preparation will aid students in maximizing their learning experience.

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“…Although such statements were made more than a decade ago, there has not been much change in the demographics of graduating speech and hearing therapists. As Tuomi (1994) states 'there is a gross undersupply of speech-language pathologistsapproximately 900 professionals for a population of over 35 million ' (p. 5). At present, of the total of 962 speech and hearing therapists in the country, only 10 are Black Africans.…”

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Training to meet the needs of the communicatively impaired population of South Africa: A project of the University of the Witwatersrand

Bortz

Jardine

Tshule

1996

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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S At a time when South Africa is in the throes of transition, ideologies in the educational, medical, economic and social spheres are being redefined and redirected. The field of speech pathology and audiology is no exception. The Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of the Witwatersrand has acknowledged an urgent need to address the requirements of a multilingual and multicultural South Africa and extend training beyond the white middle‐class population. It is the responsibility of the training institutions to redirect the objectives of their curricula in order to meet these needs. This paper describes the changes introduced by the Department. These include teaching of community work principles and primary health care to the speech and hearing therapist, and the training of personnel for an alternative form of service, such as the community speech and hearing worker (CSHW) and the community‐based rehabilitation worker (CBRW). Au moment où l'Afrique du Sud est aux prises avec la transition, l'on observe, d'un point de vue idéologique, une redéfinition et un changement de direction dans les domaines éducatif, médical, économique et social. Ceci n'épargne pas les champs de la pathologie due langage et de l'audiologie. Le Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology de l'Université du Witwatersrand reconnaît les besoin urgent de s'occuper des besoins d'une Afrique du Sud plurilingue et pluriculturelle et d'assurer l'entraînement dans un domaine plus large que celui de la population blanche de classe moyenne. Il incombe aux instituts de formation de réviser les objectifs de leurs programmes d'enseignement pour répondre à ces besoins. Cet article décrit les changements apportés par le Département, qui comprennent l'enseignment au thérapeute des troubles de la parole et de l'audition des principes du travail dans les collectivités et de l'administration des soins de base, et l'entraînement du personnel en vue d'un type de service différent, tel que celui du thérapeute communautaire des troubles de la parole et de l'audition et du spécialiste communautaire en matière de réhabilitation. In diesen Zeiten starker Umstellung in Südafrika werden Ideologien in den Bereichen Bilding, Medizin, Wirtschaft und im Sozialen neu definiert und umgestellt. Die Sprachpathologie und die Audiologie sind keine Ausnahme. Die Abteilung Sprachpathologie und Audiologie an der Universität Witwatersrand hat die dringende Notwendigkeit anerkannt, die Bedürfnisse eines multisprachlichen und multikulturellen Südafrikas zu berücksichtigen und die Ausbildung über die weiße Mittelschicht hinaus auszudehnen. Es ist die Pflicht der Ausbildungsstätten, ihre Lehrziele umzustellen, um diese Bedürfnisse zu erfüllen. In diesem Aufsatz werden die Änderungen beschrieben, die die Abteilung eingeführt hat. Hierzu gehören Kurse für Sprachtherapeuten in den Grundsätzen der Gemeinschaftsarbeit und der primären Gesundheitspflege sowie die Ausbildung zu anderen Formen therapeutischen Dienstes, wie z.B. Gemeinde‐Sprech‐und‐Hör‐TherapeutIn ...

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Speech-Language Pathology in South Africa

Cited by 12 publications

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Language and culture in speech-language and hearing professions in South Africa: The dangers of a single story

Language and culture in speech-language and hearing professions in South Africa: The dangers of a single story

Challenges for undergraduate speech pathology students undertaking cross‐cultural clinical placements

Training to meet the needs of the communicatively impaired population of South Africa: A project of the University of the Witwatersrand

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