Pillay MQuigan EKathard H2024-05-062024-05-062023-02-16Pillay M, Quigan E, Kathard H. (2023). Questions of suitability: The Sustainable Development Goals.. Int J Speech Lang Pathol. 25. 1. (pp. 162-166).1754-9507https://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/69491PURPOSE: 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.(c) 2017 The Author/sCC BY 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)communication disabilitydecolonisationindigeneitypolitical conscientisationswallowing disabilityHumansSustainable DevelopmentCommunication DisordersHuman RightsSpeech-Language PathologyGlobal HealthJournal article10.1080/17549507.2022.21600131754-9515journal-article162-166https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36795077