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Podcast: Speak Up
Episode: Adopting a decolonial vision for the profession S7E13
Description: In this week’s episode Dr Vishnu Nair lays groundwork for his keynote address at the SPA Conference on a Critical and Decolonial Vision for Speech and Language Therapy. He discusses communication as an embodied experience for - and the knowledge of - people who live with disability, critically examining historical and current power dynamics in the profession, essentialism and its impact on practice, and the variety of ways of knowing needed to address these.
Resources:
Pillay, M., & Kathard, H. (2015). Decolonizing health professionals’ education: Audiology & speech therapy in South Africa. African Journal of Rhetoric, 7(1), 193-227. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC172807Â
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