“To have work that promotes one’s liberation is such a powerful gift that it does not matter so much if the gift is flawed” bell hooks | SLP Asst Prof @UTAustin
I bet you thought you’d never see a Black feminist critical praxis for speech, language and hearing…
But here it is!!!
… you’re welcome.
Embracing Theory as Liberatory Practice: Journeying Toward a Critical Praxis of Speech, Language, and Hearing
https://t.co/0girlRkntj
Super ironic that Black English speech is dismissed and devalued as being linguistically broken, and at the same time is one of the richest sources of lexical innovation in English
@ClaraBauler @ChingChingLin2 ❤️ Yes, it’s a false dichotomy, and it feels like a formality scale where minoritized languaging practices are viewed as informal and AL is formal when all linguistic communities have formal and informal registers. A lot of conflation going on here.
@ClaraBauler I still struggle with this framing. If academic language = use of jargon, sure. But if all languaging can be intellectual (& discussing complex texts can be conversational), the continuum still alludes to AL as being more complex & respectable than the languaging Ss already have.
In rejecting standardized testing, speech and language therapists would transform their role as an expert to a co-learner which in turn would lead to collaboration with children and their families.
Well, we are in the 2nd week of classes and my students are healthily unsettled & asking good Qs. We talked about language ideologies today. A student asked me to clarify accent & dialect because she learned something different in other classes. The undoing is working 😏
Moody College welcomes eight new full-time faculty this fall!
Find out more about these new faculty in their own words, as they share their research and expertise, why they became educators and what drew them to #TEXASMoody!
https://t.co/Ps4b1eD0zH
Can we talk about the fact that when we as Black women reclaim our boundaries or prioritize caring and nurturing ourselves we name it as being selfish?! Centering our wellbeing is necessary for our collective liberation.