"I Truly Feel Like I Have Been Hustling on My Own": Minority Graduate Students' Experiences in Communication Sciences and Disorders Programs.
Purpose: The field of communication sciences and disorders (CSD) is among the least diverse health and education professions in the United States (Luther, 2017). Recruitment efforts have increased the presence of racial and/or ethnic minority students in CSD over the past decade, yet there has been...
| Published in: | Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups Vol. 18; no. 7; pp. 1106 - 1120 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Aug2022
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