Understanding Speech-Language Pathology from the Standpoint of Families: A Systemic Analysis
The Inclusive Early Childhood Service System (IECSS) project is a longitudinal institutional ethnography that studies disability services in early childhood, and the interactions between these services and other systems, from the standpoint of families. In this paper, we examine speech-language serv...
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| description | The Inclusive Early Childhood Service System (IECSS) project is a longitudinal institutional ethnography that studies disability services in early childhood, and the interactions between these services and other systems, from the standpoint of families. In this paper, we examine speech-language services as part of a system of services and a site of participation for disabled children. We use longitudinal data from annual interviews with 117 informants to map Speech and Language services over the first six years of children’s lives. We report that speech and language pathology (SLP) as a professional discourse holds cultural significance and influences the organization of disabled children and their families. The analysis of the data illustrates the pervasiveness, organizational structure, and governance of speech and language pathology (SLP) in early childhood, leading to professional discourses of childhood and disability in early intervention, preschool, and school-based services which reinforce individualized pathology as the dominant way of understanding development. We discuss how the professional practices of SLP-related services could help to disrupt disabling constructs of childhood development and colonial practices in early childhood disability services. We emphasize how speech and language development emerges in relationship with individuals and socio-political contexts. We suggest possibilities for SLP to operate within community contexts where speech and language services contribute to reducing family workload, increasing the participation of all children, and disrupting ableism in practice. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c59d3ae9f9bd4f518dcedf627ae89c512024-12-27T14:54:03ZengMDPI AGSocial Sciences2076-07602024-12-01131265610.3390/socsci13120656Understanding Speech-Language Pathology from the Standpoint of Families: A Systemic AnalysisKathryn Underwood0Alice-Simone Balter1Thanya Duvage2Catriona Kollar3Tricia van Rhijn4Michelle Jones5School of Early Childhood Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, CanadaCentre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON M6J 1H4, CanadaIndependent Researcher, Toronto, ON M4C 1B4, CanadaSchool of Early Childhood Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, CanadaDepartment of Family Relations & Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, CanadaFaculty of Education, Western University, London, ON N6A 3K7, CanadaThe Inclusive Early Childhood Service System (IECSS) project is a longitudinal institutional ethnography that studies disability services in early childhood, and the interactions between these services and other systems, from the standpoint of families. In this paper, we examine speech-language services as part of a system of services and a site of participation for disabled children. We use longitudinal data from annual interviews with 117 informants to map Speech and Language services over the first six years of children’s lives. We report that speech and language pathology (SLP) as a professional discourse holds cultural significance and influences the organization of disabled children and their families. The analysis of the data illustrates the pervasiveness, organizational structure, and governance of speech and language pathology (SLP) in early childhood, leading to professional discourses of childhood and disability in early intervention, preschool, and school-based services which reinforce individualized pathology as the dominant way of understanding development. We discuss how the professional practices of SLP-related services could help to disrupt disabling constructs of childhood development and colonial practices in early childhood disability services. We emphasize how speech and language development emerges in relationship with individuals and socio-political contexts. We suggest possibilities for SLP to operate within community contexts where speech and language services contribute to reducing family workload, increasing the participation of all children, and disrupting ableism in practice.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/12/656language and communicationdisabled children’s childhood studiessystemic ableism |
| spellingShingle | Kathryn Underwood Alice-Simone Balter Thanya Duvage Catriona Kollar Tricia van Rhijn Michelle Jones Understanding Speech-Language Pathology from the Standpoint of Families: A Systemic Analysis Social Sciences language and communication disabled children’s childhood studies systemic ableism |
| title | Understanding Speech-Language Pathology from the Standpoint of Families: A Systemic Analysis |
| title_full | Understanding Speech-Language Pathology from the Standpoint of Families: A Systemic Analysis |
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| title_short | Understanding Speech-Language Pathology from the Standpoint of Families: A Systemic Analysis |
| title_sort | understanding speech language pathology from the standpoint of families a systemic analysis |
| topic | language and communication disabled children’s childhood studies systemic ableism |
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