Making Cultural Connections Across the Professions

Abstract

Due to globalization, more opportunities exist for U.S.–based speech-language pathologists and audiologists to provide services to clients from a variety of cultural, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds. These opportunities can be a consequence of increasing groups of diverse people migrating to the United States, as well as the availability of more possibilities for members of the communication sciences and disorders professions to travel and provide services in other countries. This article focuses on a study abroad component of a transdisciplinary, transnational curriculum development program designed to explain the effects of global economic and cultural processes on health care, education, language and literacy practices, migration, and food systems in West Africa and in the U.S. Midwest.