Questions of suitability: The Sustainable Development Goals.
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Date
2023-02-16
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Taylor and Francis Group
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(c) 2017 The Author/s
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Abstract
PURPOSE: To stimulate critical thought, to challenge how speech-language pathologists (SLPs) achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in supporting people with swallowing/communication disabilities, using a critical, political conscientisation approach.
RESULT: We generate data from our professional and personal experiences interpreted through a decolonial lens to demonstrate how Eurocentric attitudes and practices are at the core of SLPs' knowledge base. We highlight risks associated with SLPs' uncritical use of human rights, the bases of the SDGs.
CONCLUSION: While SDGs are useful, SLPs should take the first steps of becoming politically conscientised to consider whiteness, to ensure that deimperialisation and decolonisation are tightly woven into our sustainable development work. This commentary paper focusses on the SDGs a whole.
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), communication disability, decolonisation, indigeneity, political conscientisation, swallowing disability, Humans, Sustainable Development, Communication Disorders, Human Rights, Speech-Language Pathology, Global Health
Citation
Pillay M, Quigan E, Kathard H. (2023). Questions of suitability: The Sustainable Development Goals.. Int J Speech Lang Pathol. 25. 1. (pp. 162-166).