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Press Release
| Contact: | Lorna D. Sikorski (714) 838 6002  |
Speech Pathologists sought for survey research project. “Integrating Culture, Language and Accent Training in the Medical Community”
Tustin, May 15, 2005
Lorna Sikorski, Lynda Katz Wilner and Marjorie Whittaker 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.
Our primary push is to generate active participation by non-native English speaking professionals in the medical setting: PT, OT, Nurses, MDs, etc. LDS would like to encourage you to help in our data acquisition! If you have clients in these settings, consider asking them to participate in the confidential online survey, either by emailed information or from your website. We have a PDF flyer that you can email to them – or that you can post on your website for the duration of the study (October 31, 2005). Contact us as soon as possible to receive the piece.
We will be sharing our information at convention. Survey details can also be requested. If you are marketing accent programs within this community, we think the data will be extremely valuable: we are not aware of any comparable survey to date. The more diverse the geographic response base, the better.
The secondary push is to generate data on the perspective of native English speakers in the medical community: this is where you come in! Many SLPs are active participants in the adult rehabilitation/medical milieu: you are fully aware of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the providers -- and receivers -- of medical services. You may already see numerous examples of communication breakdowns that critically impact quality care. Please consider becoming an active participant in this survey yourself.
We look forward to sharing the information with you; we also look forward to any comments you have on the survey design.
How to Participate:
Please click here to take the 20-minute survey. In any case, you may want to take it first, before comfortably referring others to do the same. Please share the information with other SLP or rehab colleagues who could assist us.