Serving children from the culture of poverty: practical strategies for speech-language pathologists.

How do we define "culture"? Much too narrowly. We have traditionally used the term to focus primarily on people's ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. Such limitation, however, causes us to neglect attention to one of the most important cultures of all--the culture of poverty.

As the politics and demographics of the United States undergo continuing shifts, many speech-language pathologists find themselves serving increasing numbers of clients from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. A great need exists for information that will help SLPs more effectively ...

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