PURPOSE Implicit racial and ethnic biases have been documented across a variety of allied health professions; however, minimal research on this topic has been conducted within the field of speech-language pathology. The purpose of this study was to understand implicit racial and ethnic bias in speech-language pathology students by examining their perceptions and attitudes about the acceptability of racial and ethnic microaggressions. We also examined whether the student ratings varied by their racial and ethnic identity (White vs. people of color [POC]). METHOD Fifty-nine students (72% White, 28% POC) currently enrolled in a speech-language pathology program voluntarily completed the Acceptability of Racial Microaggressions Scale via an online Qualtrics survey. RESULTS Although 70% of the student ratings classified the microaggressive statements as unacceptable, 30% of their ratings classified the statements as either (a) acceptable or (b) neither acceptable nor unacceptable. Although both groups of students rated the majority of statements as unacceptable, students who self-identified as White rated more statements as acceptable than students who self-identified as POC. CONCLUSIONS Findings indicating relatively high rejection of microaggressive statements by speech-language pathology students are promising. However, responses were not uniform, and a nontrivial proportion of responses provided by speech-language pathology students reflected passivity toward or active endorsement of microaggressive statements.

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从言语病理学学生的角度来看种族微侵犯的可接受性。


目的 各种专职医疗行业都存在隐性的种族和民族偏见；然而，在言语病理学领域对此主题进行的研究很少。本研究的目的是通过检查言语病理学学生对种族和民族微侵犯的可接受性的看法和态度，了解他们隐含的种族和民族偏见。我们还检查了学生的评分是否因种族和民族身份（白人与有色人种 [POC]）而异。方法 目前参加言语病理学项目的 59 名学生（72% 白人，28% POC）通过在线 Qualtrics 调查自愿完成了种族微侵犯量表的可接受性。结果 虽然 70% 的学生将微攻击性言论归为不可接受，但 30% 的学生将这些言论归为 (a) 可接受或 (b) 既不可接受也不不可接受。尽管两组学生都认为大多数陈述不可接受，但自认为是白人的学生比自认为是 POC 的学生认为更多的陈述可以接受。结论 研究结果表明，言语病理学学生对微攻击性言论的拒绝程度相对较高，这是有希望的。然而，回答并不统一，言语病理学学生提供的回答中有很大一部分反映了对微攻击性言论的被动或积极认可。