SIUE's Applied Health Dept. Hosts Cultural Responsiveness Expert

SIUE's Applied Health Dept. Hosts Cultural Responsiveness Expert

On Friday, November 8, 2024, Kia Noelle Johnson, PhD, CCC-SLP, visited Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to present "Get Your House in Order: Strengthening Cultural Responsiveness through DEI" to program students, faculty, and staff in the speech-language pathology and audiology professions.

Johnson is Director of The University of Texas at Austin's Arthur M. Blank Center for Stuttering Education and Research - Atlanta Satellite, a clinical research institute with the mission to change the world for people who stutter. She is an ASHA board-certified and state-licensed speech-language pathologist and expert in stuttering with a focus on culturally diverse communities.

Johnson shared her expertise in diversity, equity, and inclusion in evaluating existing recruitment and retention processes from a culturally responsive lens.

"Dr. Johnson's extensive knowledge and work in this area will help provide our program with critical resources that enable us to evaluate and continuously improve our recruitment, admissions, advising, and mentoring to meet best meet the needs of our students," said James Panico, PhD, CCC-SLP, professor and coordinator, ASHA SIG 4: Fluency and Fluency Disorders in the SIUE Department of Applied Health.

PHOTO: Kia Johnson, PhD, CCC-SLP; Allison Sauerwein, PhD, assistant professor and undergraduate program director of Speech-Language Pathology, speaker Kia Noelle Johnson, PhD, and James Panico, PhD, CCC-SLP