Speech Language Therapy as a Global Practice

Chisomo Selemani is an Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Baldwin Wallace University. Her clinical and research interests include literacy enrichment in multicultural and multilingual environments, the utilization of international education as a training mechanism in cultivating culturally responsive practitioners, and international telepractice. She is the coordinator of the award-winning Baldwin Wallace University in Zambia initiative.

Bea Staley is an adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Society at Charles Darwin University. Bea is a speech language pathologist with decades of paediatric experience who has lived and worked in the United States, Kenya, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands and Australia. Bea is interested in issues of equity, social justice, and innovation in speech language pathology service provision, and in the overlap between the health and education disciplines.

Marise Fernandes has spent over 30 years living and working as a Speech and Language Therapist and educator in the United Kingdom, Fiji, Philippines, India, Uganda and the USA. Her focus is on the development of socially just support for people experiencing communication difficulty in Majority World contexts. Marise’s emphasis is on the need for the employment of global public health theory and approaches, individual and systems capacity strengthening, alternative/decolonised approaches to service delivery, and the necessity of interdisciplinary education and collaboration.