Barriers to Equity in Pediatric Hearing Health Care: A Review of the Evidence.
Sarah KingsburyNicole KhvalabovJonathan StirnCara HeldStephanie M FleckensteinKristi HendricksonElizabeth A WalkerPublished in: Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groups (2022)
To address the socioeconomic, cultural, and linguistic inequities seen in the diagnosis and management of childhood hearing loss, pediatric audiologists and speech-language pathologists have a responsibility to provide culturally responsive practice to their individual clients and their families, as well as advocate for substantive changes at the policy level that impact their clients' daily lives.