#Blacklivesmatter
Response to #BlackLivesMatter, June 2020:
As members of a people-oriented field, speech–language pathologists have a responsibility to ensure that their daily practice isn’t racist.
As a business that educates SLPs, The Informed SLP has a responsibility to ensure our colleagues have the information to identify what racism is, and the many forms it can take, so that they can become actively anti-racist.
We aren’t going to write a traditional business statement this week, because others have already done it beautifully. This one is fantastic. (And you all know that we’re fans of quoting smart people who make smart statements.)
What we WILL write to you all is a promise:
Sincerely, and in solidarity,
Meredith Harold, PhD, CCC-SLP
Owner of The Informed SLP
As members of a people-oriented field, speech–language pathologists have a responsibility to ensure that their daily practice isn’t racist.
As a business that educates SLPs, The Informed SLP has a responsibility to ensure our colleagues have the information to identify what racism is, and the many forms it can take, so that they can become actively anti-racist.
We aren’t going to write a traditional business statement this week, because others have already done it beautifully. This one is fantastic. (And you all know that we’re fans of quoting smart people who make smart statements.)
What we WILL write to you all is a promise:
- We promise to not take the easy path of being non-racist, but instead be actively anti-racist. Not just this week, but every week. Sometimes this will take the form of social media posts. Sometimes this will take the form of editing and adding to content within our website. It will always take the form of informing SLPs and scientists in our field, because that’s what we’re here for.
- We promise to participate in correcting how sadly white our field, our field’s research, and even our own team is.
- We promise to provide SLPs and scientists with solutions for interpreting and correcting for research that is disproportionately white.
- We promise to part with our privilege, as a company, by parting with time, money, and safety, in the name of Black causes.
- We promise to work and give, without centering ourselves or taking credit for a movement that is a result of Black leadership’s labor.
- We promise to be fully open to the feedback of our members, without putting any unpaid or disproportionate burden on our members who are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color).
- Finally, as owner of TISLP, I promise to build this into our team schedule. Because I’m the only one who has true control over whether or not any of this happens.
Sincerely, and in solidarity,
Meredith Harold, PhD, CCC-SLP
Owner of The Informed SLP
As speech–language pathologists, we depend upon our field’s research to serve our clients well.
We strive to use evidence-based practice.
But how much time do we really have to search the evidence?
Searching databases and reading journal articles is time consuming.
As speech–language pathologists, we depend upon our field’s research to serve our clients well.
We strive to use evidence-based practice.
But how much time do we really have to search the evidence?
Searching databases and reading journal articles is time consuming.
At The Informed SLP, we save you time by finding the research for you.
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We search the top speech–language pathology journals each month, looking for articles that are immediately relevant to your daily practice. We then read and reduce that research down to plain-language reviews of only the most clinically-applicable pieces. |