It is pertinent to have cultural competence in the field of speech-language pathology. Cultural competence in speech pathology involves understanding the importance of social and cultural influences on a patients’ health beliefs and behaviors; considering how these factors interact during the delivery of care (clinical decision makings or structure of delivery), and planning interventions that comprise of these factors to assure quality …show more content…
SLP’s need to understand the people-nature relationship, which examines how a cultural group views its relationship with nature and its environment (Bellon-Harn & Garrett, 2008). Some cultures may view a disorder as an integral component of life, so they will reject intervention and deem it unnecessary (Matteliano & Stone, 2014). The client and clients’ family perspective on nature can affect the degree to which services they want provided and the degree to which a family is willing to participate (Bellon-Harn & Garrett,