Podcast With Professort Vishnu Nair
Wed, 23 Apr
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Professor Vishnu Nair is based in the UK and is currently finalising his first book. He will be a keynote speaker at the speech pathology Australia conference talking about the need to decolonise communication. And seeing children for their true potential.
Time & Location
23 Apr 2025, 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm
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About the event
One of Professor Vishnu's is presentations can be read below:
Beyond Cultural and Linguistic Diversity: A Critical and Decolonial Vision for Speech and Language Therapy
Presentation summary
Historically, knowledge production and clinical service delivery within Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) have been carried out based on positivist and bio-medical paradigms. Whilst liberal discourses on clinical service delivery within these paradigms have focused on providing equitable care towards multilingual, multicultural or ‘culturally and linguistically diverse’ populations, it has not examined the impact of colonialism and over medicalisation in SLT service delivery. This presentation will critically examine the colonial and Euro-centric conceptualisation of language and ‘communication disorders’ that have come to dominate majority of SLT profession’s history. These ideologies present critical challenges in delivering person and justice centred care, for example, for neurodivergent, racially minoritised, gender-diverse individuals or those who are at the intersections of these multiple marginalising identities. What does it…