Multicultural considerations Flashcards
What is cultural responsiveness?
Understanding and appropriately including and responding to the combination of cultural variables and the full range of dimensions of diversity that an individual brings to interactions
What does cultural responsiveness require?
Value diversity, seeking to further cultural knowledge and working toward the creation of community spaces and workspaces where diversity is valued
What is cultural competence?
Begin with understanding your own culture and continues through reciprocal interactions with individuals from various cultures, lifelong learning process
Cultural competence is a ___ process
Dynamic and complex process requiring ongoing self-assessment, continuous cultural education, openness to other’s values and beliefs
What is cultural humility?
Understanding that you need to start with understanding your own beliefs and cultural identities to better understand the beliefs and cultural identities of others
What is ethnography?
Observing and interviewing members of a culture, trying to understand without personal judgement or bias
What is the conceptual model for gaining cultural competence?
Awareness
Skill
Knowledge
Encounters
Desire
Before an assessment, what steps should you take to be culturally aware?
Understand the client’s culture, normal communicative development associated with the culture, client’s personal history
Why is it important to know the culture of the client?
Exchange info in a culturally sensitive manner
Disregarding a client’s culture leads to ….
Misunderstandings
Inaccurate diagnosis
Offending clients/families
How can culture affect views on disability?
See it as fate, spiritual gift, punishment
When addressing families, what steps should you take?
Ask families/caregivers how they prefer you address them
How can a client’s culture impact how they respond to assessment questions?
Child’s behavior with adult (example: seen not heard)
Eye contact could be seen as disrespectful
When assessing a child from a different culture, make sure to look for communicative patterns in their language. What does this include?
Consult available data
Dialects: create specific variations in grammatical and phonological rules
What is transfer during second language acquisition?
Communicative behaviors from first language are transferred to second language
