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Semin Speech Lang 1996; 17(2): 155-165
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1064096
© 1996 by Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.

Working within Systems that Don't … or at Least not the Way I Thought They Would!

Catherine H. Gottfred
  • President, Board of Directors, Gottfred Communication Foundation, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
A personal perspective of a speech-language pathologist learning to share her love of language with a culture different from her own-a tale of frustration, reward, and growth.
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15 May 2008 (online)

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ABSTRACT

Each culture has its own systems, values, structures, and rules which differ from those of other cultures. To function effectively in any culture, one has to gain an appreciation of its values and rules, an understanding of how it is organized, and knowledge of the people who are in charge of its systems. This is true, also, of clinical work with people of different cultures. This article is a personal journal which describes one speech-pathologist's encounters with ethnic and governmental cultures, what she learned, and how she grew.

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cultures - ethnic - governmental

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