Division 39 Spring Meeting--Supplement: April 13-17, 1994, Washington, D.C.: Invited Lecture given by Dr. Stephen Mitchell: Gender and Sexual Orientation in the Age of Post- Modernism: The Plight of the Perplexed Clinician

AbstractDiscourses of sexuality, gender and sexual orientation are moving from the margins to the mainstream of legal theory, notably in the area of international human rights. Each of these three sets of discourses preserves its own history and ideals. Neither are they wholly distinct from each other, nor are they simply three concepts denoting the same thing. Each has remained quasi-autonomous – always related to, yet always stubbornly distinct from, the others. No one of these three discursive sites can be engaged without significant reference to the other two; nor does one site simply reduce to another. What do we mean, then, when we use one of these terms, and when we choose it instead of the other two? What relationships obtain among the three sites? This essay proposes not an exhaustive analysis of those relationships, but only an approach that might be followed were such a broader analysis to be undertaken. It is argued that these three sites correlate to three intellectual moments – classical, modernist and post-modernist – in the constitution of the human subject within international human rights law. As an initial matter, this correlation can be understood to be straightforward: discourses of sexuality correlated to classicism, discourses of gender correlated to modernism, discourses of sexual orientation correlated to post-modernism. Closer analysis, however, reveals a more complex set of relationships, in which each of the three sites corresponds to each of the three intellectual moments. None of the three sites is `pure'. Each retains an ongoing dialogue with the others and within itself.

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Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations: Serving GLBT Families in Our Schools

Perspectives on Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations ◽

10.1044/cds16.1.11 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 11-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ashley M. Frazier

Keyword(s):

Sexual Orientation ◽

Cultural Competence ◽

Service Delivery ◽

Linguistically Diverse ◽

Culturally And Linguistically Diverse ◽

Diverse Populations ◽

Cultural Issues ◽

Willingness To Disclose ◽

Bisexual And Transgender ◽

Societal Changes

Abstract School speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are increasingly likely to serve children of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) parents or GLBT students as cultural and societal changes create growth in the population and increased willingness to disclose sexual orientation. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has a progressive nondiscrimination statement that includes sexual orientation as a protected status and strongly urges the membership to develop cultural competence as a matter of ethical service delivery. The purpose of this article is to describe cultural competence in relation to GLBT culture, discuss GLBT parent and student cultural issues as they are important in parent-school or student-school relations, and to provide suggestions for increasing sensitivity in these types of interactions. A list of resources is provided.

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