CD 415 FINAL – Questions & Answers 100% verified 2026
To provide the highest quality of services and prevent misdiagnosis and/or mistreatment, every clinician must strive
to become increasingly competent in providing services in a ___, ___, and ___ manner. - ✔✔Correct Ans-
Nonbiased, nonjudgmental, ethical
To provide the best services possible, the SLP, or any of the members of the caregiving team, must take into account
the person as a whole. This includes understanding the influence of ___ and ___ on the assessment and treatment
process. - ✔✔Correct Ans- assimilation, acculturation
___ is the process in which someone in a new environment totally embraces the host culture (values, beliefs,
behaviors). - ✔✔Correct Ans- Assimilation
____ allows individuals to identify with the primary community in which they have been socialized as well as with
the broader majority community or host culture. - ✔✔Correct Ans- Acculturation
Increased awareness about acculturation is needed to reduce the potential for _____. Clinicians cannot assume that
all persons from a particular group or culture are ____ in every aspect of everyday life. - ✔✔Correct Ans-
stereotyping, similar
___ is defined as the behaviors, artifacts, and beliefs adopted by a person or groups used to define their social
identity. - ✔✔Correct Ans- Culture
In regards to culture, some behaviors are ___, ___, and ____ (explicit), whereas other behaviors are abstract and
internal, and must be ____ (implicit). - ✔✔Correct Ans- evident, external, perceivable.....inferred
The term culture is used here to refer to the ___, ___ groups of persons sharing a set of cultural variables, rather than
referring to any specific ethnic groups whose cultural traits are difficult to define. - ✔✔Correct Ans- general,
collective
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, What are the explicit cultural variables (behaviors and artifacts) [6]? - ✔✔Correct Ans- Language, religious
practices, eating/feeding preferences, manner of celebration, music/dance, homework, newspapers, paintings, crafts
What are implicit cultural variables (beliefs inferred from behaviors and artifacts) [6]? - ✔✔Correct Ans-
Language-ego permeability: degree to which language mixing or code switching is allowed/accepted...child-rearing
expectancies, role of parent/child/teacher in education, role of parent/professional in health profession, role of males
vs. females, monotheistic vs. polytheistic beliefs
___ competence is not a skill that is acquired or learned but rather one that is developed over time. - ✔✔Correct
Ans- Cultural
In 2004, ASHA approved a practice document "Knowledge and Skills Needed by SLPs and Audiologists to Provide
____ and ____ Appropriate Services." It outlines the knowledge and skills that clinicians must strive to develop in
order to provide ___ and culturally appropriate services. It also acknowledges the need for ___ ___. - ✔✔Correct
Ans- Culturally Linguistically, unbiased, lifelong learning
The ASHA document dealing with culturally and linguistically appropriate services lists a variety of competencies
needed to achieve cultural competence, such as sensitivity to ___, understanding the influence of culture on ___ ___,
and the need to advocate for and empower limited ___-___ patients, families, and communities. - ✔✔Correct
Ans- differences, service delivery, English-speaking
In efforts to categorize the general population, the U.S. Bureau of the Census (2000) defines all nonwhite persons as
_____. Payne (1997) has commented that lumping individuals together under this label suggests ____. -
✔✔Correct Ans- minorities, inferiority
Many individuals now use the term racial/ethnic minority, in keeping with the U.S. Census designations of minority
groups: (5) - ✔✔Correct Ans- Hispanic Americans, African Americans, Native American Indians, Asian/Pacific
Islanders, Others
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To provide the highest quality of services and prevent misdiagnosis and/or mistreatment, every clinician must strive
to become increasingly competent in providing services in a ___, ___, and ___ manner. - ✔✔Correct Ans-
Nonbiased, nonjudgmental, ethical
To provide the best services possible, the SLP, or any of the members of the caregiving team, must take into account
the person as a whole. This includes understanding the influence of ___ and ___ on the assessment and treatment
process. - ✔✔Correct Ans- assimilation, acculturation
___ is the process in which someone in a new environment totally embraces the host culture (values, beliefs,
behaviors). - ✔✔Correct Ans- Assimilation
____ allows individuals to identify with the primary community in which they have been socialized as well as with
the broader majority community or host culture. - ✔✔Correct Ans- Acculturation
Increased awareness about acculturation is needed to reduce the potential for _____. Clinicians cannot assume that
all persons from a particular group or culture are ____ in every aspect of everyday life. - ✔✔Correct Ans-
stereotyping, similar
___ is defined as the behaviors, artifacts, and beliefs adopted by a person or groups used to define their social
identity. - ✔✔Correct Ans- Culture
In regards to culture, some behaviors are ___, ___, and ____ (explicit), whereas other behaviors are abstract and
internal, and must be ____ (implicit). - ✔✔Correct Ans- evident, external, perceivable.....inferred
The term culture is used here to refer to the ___, ___ groups of persons sharing a set of cultural variables, rather than
referring to any specific ethnic groups whose cultural traits are difficult to define. - ✔✔Correct Ans- general,
collective
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, What are the explicit cultural variables (behaviors and artifacts) [6]? - ✔✔Correct Ans- Language, religious
practices, eating/feeding preferences, manner of celebration, music/dance, homework, newspapers, paintings, crafts
What are implicit cultural variables (beliefs inferred from behaviors and artifacts) [6]? - ✔✔Correct Ans-
Language-ego permeability: degree to which language mixing or code switching is allowed/accepted...child-rearing
expectancies, role of parent/child/teacher in education, role of parent/professional in health profession, role of males
vs. females, monotheistic vs. polytheistic beliefs
___ competence is not a skill that is acquired or learned but rather one that is developed over time. - ✔✔Correct
Ans- Cultural
In 2004, ASHA approved a practice document "Knowledge and Skills Needed by SLPs and Audiologists to Provide
____ and ____ Appropriate Services." It outlines the knowledge and skills that clinicians must strive to develop in
order to provide ___ and culturally appropriate services. It also acknowledges the need for ___ ___. - ✔✔Correct
Ans- Culturally Linguistically, unbiased, lifelong learning
The ASHA document dealing with culturally and linguistically appropriate services lists a variety of competencies
needed to achieve cultural competence, such as sensitivity to ___, understanding the influence of culture on ___ ___,
and the need to advocate for and empower limited ___-___ patients, families, and communities. - ✔✔Correct
Ans- differences, service delivery, English-speaking
In efforts to categorize the general population, the U.S. Bureau of the Census (2000) defines all nonwhite persons as
_____. Payne (1997) has commented that lumping individuals together under this label suggests ____. -
✔✔Correct Ans- minorities, inferiority
Many individuals now use the term racial/ethnic minority, in keeping with the U.S. Census designations of minority
groups: (5) - ✔✔Correct Ans- Hispanic Americans, African Americans, Native American Indians, Asian/Pacific
Islanders, Others
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