Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Action Resources

Updated: October 26, 4:00 p.m.

Activity Ideas

• Chapter Conversations
• Chapter Book Club

Articles

• The Intersectionality Wars, Jane Coaston (Vox)

Blogs

National NSSLHA Blog

• Our Role as CSD Students in the Fight for Social Justice, Connor Mahon
• Raw Conversations: Stop the Silence Listening Session and Tips to Become a CSD Student Ally 
• Your Role In Stopping the Silence Against Racism in CSD Programs
• The Complicated American Culture—How It Affects Us As Future Professionals, Sara Benanti-Atiyat
• Supporting a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse CSD Community, Nicole Flournory
• Our Voices Count—A Panel on Multicultural Experiences, Teresa Girolamo

Member Stories in 2021

• Meet Arpit Nagra: Committed to Empowering Others
• Meet Carlos Pérez Valle: Pursuing Equity in CSD
• Navigating CSD as a First-Generation College Student, Izela Schutz Michel
• Finding Community as an LGBTQ+ Student, Connor Mahon
• Meet Nkauk-Huab Lo: Finding Her Strength Within CSD
• Overcoming the Odds to Become a Bilingual SLP, Miya Wilson
• Rising United in CSD: Perspectives from AAPI CSD Students, Leila Regio
• Curing Autism Would Erase Me: Discouraging Ableism, Encouraging Advocacy, Alicia Parsons
• Meet Marland Chang: Voice of a Veteran
• The NBASLH Experience: Student Voices of the Past and Present, Lauren Prather, CCC-SLP

ASHA LeaderLive

• Addressing Disparities in the Wake of Injustice, Violence, and COVID-19; Vicki Deal-Williams
• Moving Forward as a Profession in a Time of Uncertainty; Kyomi Gregory

ASHA Perspectives

• Perceptions of Racial Privilege in Prospective Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, Kerry Danahy Ebert

Books

• A Child Shall Lead Them: Martin Luther King Jr., Young People, and the Movement; Rufus Burrow Jr.
• Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.; H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman
• Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism; John Hoberman
• English with an Accent: Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States; Rosina Lippi-Green
• How to Be an Antiracist; Ibram X. Kendi
• Me and White Supremacy; Layla Saad
• Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy; Vershawn Ashanti Young, Rusty Barrett, and Y'Shanda Young-Rivera
• So You Want to Talk About Race; Ijeoma Oluo
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness; Michelle Alexander
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures; Anne Fadiman
• Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race; Debbie Irving
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race; Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD

Podcasts

• HBCU Experiences & Accelerated 5-Year Master Program: An Interview with VaSeana Moran; Views From the 8%
• Ijeoma Oluo Talks Race, Conversation, and Microagressions, ASHA Voices
• What Is a Queer SLP?; The Queer SLP

Video

Short Clips

• How Microaggressions Are Like Mosquito Bites, Fusion
• Intersectionality 101, Teaching Tolerance by the Southern Poverty Law Center
• Our Hidden Biases, Picture Alternatives
• Peanut Butter, Jelly and Racism, The New York Times
• Racialized Trauma: The Weathering Effects on the Human Body, Resmaa Menakem
• Systemic Racism Explained, act.tv

TedTalks

• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Talking About Race, Jay Smooth
• I'm Mexican. Does That Change Your Assumptions About Me?, Vanessa Vancour
• Is My Skin Brown Because I Drank Chocolate Milk?, Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
• Not the Hearing or Deaf World, Heather Artinian
• Racism Has a Cost for Everyone, Heather C. McGhee
• The Danger of a Single Story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Urgency of Intersectionality, Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Three Ways to Speak English, Jamila Lyiscott
• Who Counts as a Speaker of a Language?, Anna Babel
• Why I Keep Speaking Up, Even When People Mock My Accent, Safwat Saleem

Documentaries/Series

• 13th (Netflix documentary)
• When They See Us (Netflix series)

Events

• Confronting Systemic Racism in CSD Academic Training Programs, University of Washington
• Justice, Equity, & Anti-Racism at the University Level, SLPs Of Color
• Raw Conversations: Beyond the Petition—How to be Anti-Racist in CSD Education, National NSSLHA
• Raw Conversations: Stop the Silence Listening Session, National NSSLHA
• So You Want to Talk About Race; Ijeoma Oluo's address during ASHA's Office of Multicultural Affairs 50th anniversary

Websites

• ASHA: Self-assessment for cultural competence
• ASHA: Office of Multicultural Affairs
• ASHA: That's Unheard Of
• Courageous Conversation
• Dismantle Collective
• Racial Equity Tools (see glossary of terms)