Press Release
| Contact: | Lorna D. Sikorski (714) 838 6002  |
Researchers solicit healthcare providers to participate in new survey launched for the study: “Integrating Culture, Language and Accent Training in the Medical Community”
Tustin, CA, September 1, 2005
Three prominent training leaders in the fields of Accent and Advanced ESL for adults have launched a four month investigative research project to look at the impact of cultures, language differences, and accent on the realities of patient care in US medical settings. The principles of LDS & Associates, Successfully Speaking, and The Whittaker Group are speech pathologists and the research investigators for this study.
Prominent in this study will be the online survey of healthcare providers in all professional capacities. Data collection for this project is ambitious: during the 4-month timeline, they wish to collect a minimum of 500 responses. Respondents will include both second language speakers of English as well as the native speakers of English who collaborate and/or supervise multicultural/multilingual healthcare workforces. “We’d like to encourage supervisory personnel in healthcare settings throughout the country to not only take the brief survey themselves, but to encourage their people to participate as well. The anticipated results will help corporate trainers improve the existing – and already successful - communication improvement programs available in the medical settings. Because of their frequent role as the ‘first face’ of American healthcare, we’d particularly like to encourage a representative sampling of nursing professionals throughout the US to take the survey.”
By utilizing the anonymity of an online survey format, it is anticipated that the respondents will offer candid and completely confidential responses. To date, no comprehensive, national, and publicly-accessible survey on these issues has been done. Numerous university medical schools and health organizations have tentatively agreed to distribution the survey links to their database, including the New England School of Acupuncture.
How to Participate:
Please click here to take the 20-minute survey.
Preliminary findings are tentatively going to be presented at the American
Speech Language and Hearing Association annual
meeting in San Diego,
California in November, 2005. Other presentations are under consideration.
We will
be happy to share the final survey data after the study closes. Contact
us if you wish to receive
that copy.