Open AccessChanging How Speech-Language Pathologists Think and Talk About Dialect Variation
Author(s) -
Janna B. Oetting,
Kyomi D. Gregory,
Andrew M. Rivière
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
perspectives of the asha special interest groups
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2381-473X
DOI - 10.1044/persp1.sig16.28
Subject(s) - variation (astronomy) , linguistics , phrase , psychology , diversity (politics) , language change , field (mathematics) , sociology , philosophy , physics , mathematics , astrophysics , anthropology , pure mathematics
In this article, we argue for a change in how professionals in speech-language pathology think and talk about dialect diversity in the US and elsewhere. Our recommendation is evidence-based and reflects a change we have made to better serve children and advocate for the field of communication disorders. The change involves replacing the phrase dialect vs. disorder with disorder within dialect . While this change in wording may seem superficial, it generates dramatically different types of conversations a professional can have with others about childhood language impairment across different dialects of English.