20Q: Engaging in Culturally Responsive Practices
Course: #11162Level: Intermediate 1 Hour 218 ReviewsThis course defines culturally responsive practices and presents a conceptual framework to guide these practices.
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Course Type: Text
CEUs/Hours Offered: ASHA/0.1 Intermediate, Related; Calif SLPAB/1.0; IACET/0.1; Kansas LTS-S1370/1.0; SAC/1.0
Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to define culture and culturally responsive practices (CRP).
- After this course, participants will be able to differentiate culturally responsive practices from diversity.
- After this course, participants will be able to describe a pathway to CRP.
- After this course, participants will be able to explain some conceptual frameworks that can be used to guide our culturally responsive practice.
- After this course, participants will be able to explain the importance of interrogating and employing concepts that better guide our culturally responsive practices.
Course created on April 7, 2025
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218 ReviewsPresented By

Yvette D. Hyter
PhD CCC-SLP, ASHA Honors
Yvette D. Hyter, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, USA, and a Fellow of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association. Dr. Hyter’s research focuses on the influences of culture on communication development with particular emphasis in pragmatic language and social communication in children with histories of maltreatment and children who speak African American English. As a founding member of the Children's Trauma Assessment Center of Southwest Michigan, Dr. Hyter’s clinical concentration is twofold: (1) the social pragmatic language of children with histories of maltreatment and prenatal alcohol exposure and (2) transdisciplinary assessments. She developed a social pragmatic communication assessment battery for young children that is currently being tested in Brazil, Cyprus, Greece, and the United States. Recently, Dr. Hyter and a colleague were funded a Resiliency Center grant through Western Michigan University.
Dr. Hyter has expertise in culturally responsive and globally sustainable practices. As Co-Director of a nonprofit, Cultural Connections: Transnational Research and Education Laboratory, she co-teaches study-abroad courses for students and community members in West Africa and in the U.S. Midwest about the causes and consequences of globalization on systems, policies, and practices. She has published articles underscoring the need for conceptual frameworks guiding practice in culturally responsive and globally sustainable ways, a co-authored textbook on culturally responsive practices through Plural Publishing, articles on the impact of childhood trauma on language and communication and served in national and international leadership positions regarding global practice, diversity, inclusion, and equity. Currently, Dr. Hyter is the owner of Language and Literacy Practices, Inc. through which she provides culturally and linguistically responsive, and trauma-informed assessments, interventions, and educational consultations.
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FInancial: Yvette Hyter is the owner of Language and Literacy Practices, Inc. and has authored articles, books on this and related topics. She has developed a social pragmatic communication assessment tool that will be referenced in this presentation. Nonfinancial: Dr. Hyter is a founding member of the Children's Trauma Assessment Center of Southwest Michigan.
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