First Bite #86 – February 04, 2020

National Black Association for Speech, Language and Hearing and You!

(.1 ASHA and AOTA CEUs) For more info, click here.

Course Description

In recognition of Black History Month, Michelle interviews the amazing Kia Noelle Johnson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP. Dr. Johnson, who serves on the ASHA Board of Directors as the National Advisor to the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association, is also an 18-year member of the National Black Association for Speech, Language and Hearing where she currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors. She is also a proud alumna of the 2006 class of the ASHA Minority Student Leadership Program. This is a fast paced hour that covers a lot of ground: everything from the history of African Americans prevalence and growth within the world of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, how an SLP working in the world of Early Intervention needs to ethically assess and treat a child with a suspected language delay or impairment when a little one that we are working with has AAVE or resides with a family who speaks using a recognized dialect such as Gullah or Geechee, and how one could become involved in such groups as NBASLH and the Student Minority Leadership Program at ASHA. Enjoy the encouragement in how we can encourage diversity within our field at a local grassroots effort!

Objective

By the end of this PodCourse, participants will be able to identify and describe:

  • The history of African Americans prevalence and growth within the world of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology.
  • Considerations for how an SLP working in the world of Early Intervention needs to ethically assess and treat a child with a suspected language delay or impairment when a little one that we are working with has AAVE or resides with a family who speaks using a recognized dialect such as Gullah or Geechee.
  • 3 ways in which one could become involved in such groups as NBASLH and the Student Minority Leadership Program at ASHA, or in general how one can encourage diversity within our field at a local grassroots effort.

Co-Presenter

Kia Noelle Johnson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Kia Noelle Johnson is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Director of the Stuttering Analysis Research Laboratory at the University of Houston in Houston, TX. She also serves as a co-advisor to the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association chapter at the University of Houston. She completed her doctoral training in Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN). She received a Master’s and Baccalaureate degree in Communication Disorders from Howard University (Washington, DC) and Truman State University (Kirksville, MO), respectively.

Dr. Johnson specializes in Fluency and Fluency Disorders with a focus on children who stutter. Her current research interest is in the examination of speech disfluencies in culturally and linguistically diverse children who do and do not stutter. Aside from teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses, she presents her research at local, national, and international scholarly conferences and has first-authored and co-authored many research publications. Dr. Johnson also holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence as a Speech-Language Pathologist with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and state licensure with Texas.