Scholars@Duke
Danai Kassambira Fannin

Danai Kassambira Fannin CV

Adjunct Associate Professor in Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
CV

Selected Publications

Consideration of Intersectionality in the Context of Neurodiversity-Affirming Services for Black Autistic People

Journal Article Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups · June 10, 2025 Purpose:Neurodiversity-affirming practice is a more inclusive and respectful approach to support for autistic people. By valuing neurodiversity, clinicians can provide more personalized i ... Full text Cite

The Right ICD Code, Right Now: A Call to Action for Pragmatic Language Disorders After Right Hemisphere Stroke.

Journal Article Am J Speech Lang Pathol · November 4, 2024 PURPOSE: Diagnosis of language impairments after stroke is important to optimizing stroke outcomes. After right hemisphere brain damage (RHD), apragmatism can impact the comprehension and production of pragmatic language. However, despite decades of empiri ... Full text Link to item Cite

Black Caregiver Perspectives During a Developmental Diagnostic Interview.

Journal Article J Autism Dev Disord · October 26, 2024 Despite increasing autism prevalence rates across racial and ethnic groups, research has traditionally overlooked the influence of culture on developmental diagnostic conversations. Addressing this gap in research is crucial to understanding and mitigating ... Full text Link to item Cite

Introduction to the Forum: Assessment of Understudied Languages

Journal Article Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups · June 3, 2024 Purpose:This introduction provides background information about thePerspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups(SIG 14: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity) Forum: Speech and Language ... Full text Cite

Unpacking the prevalence: A warning against overstating the recently narrowed gap for Black autistic youth.

Journal Article Autism Res · June 2024 Recent findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network's 2020 prevalence report indicate that disparities in autism diagnoses between Black and White youth have narrowed, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Intersectionality of Race and Question-Asking in Women After Right Hemisphere Brain Damage.

Journal Article J Speech Lang Hear Res · January 12, 2023 PURPOSE: Atypical pragmatic language can impede quality health care access. Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) results in changes in pragmatic language use; however, little is known about whether there are racial/ethnic influences. Recent research indicat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Inequity in Peer Review in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Journal Article Am J Speech Lang Pathol · July 12, 2022 PURPOSE: The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by retaining and advancing Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) individuals in the discipline of communication scie ... Full text Link to item Cite

Introduction to the Forum: Increasing Diversity in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Workforce, Part 1.

Journal Article Am J Speech Lang Pathol · September 23, 2021 Purpose This introduction provides background information about this forum of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and a preview of articles published in this first installment of the forum. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Student Stories: Microaggressions in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Journal Article Am J Speech Lang Pathol · September 23, 2021 Purpose Microaggressions and how they affect underrepresented college students have been frequently documented. However, there is a lack of literature on the experiences of underrepresented communication sciences and disorders (CSD) students. The purpose o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Educational classifications of autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability among school-aged children in North Carolina: Associations with race, rurality, and resource availability.

Journal Article Autism Res · May 2021 Disparities exist in the recognition of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID) in racial/ethnic minorities in the United States. This study examined whether rurality, race/ethnicity, and low resource availability are associated wit ... Full text Link to item Cite

Communicative Function Use of Preschoolers and Mothers From Differing Racial and Socioeconomic Groups.

Journal Article Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch · April 5, 2018 PURPOSE: This study explores whether communicative function (CF: reasons for communicating) use differs by socioeconomic status (SES), race/ethnicity, or gender among preschoolers and their mothers. METHOD: Mother-preschooler dyads (N = 95) from the Nation ... Full text Link to item Cite

Reporting of underrepresented populations in autism treatment studies across 25 years

Journal Article Clinical Archives of Communication Disorders · December 1, 2017 Purpose: Eight language and autism related journals published between 1993 and 2017 were analyzed to identify trends in the inclusion of underrepresented populations in empirical studies with social skill, play, joint attention, and expressive language out ... Full text Cite

Social communication assessment and intervention for children on the autism spectrum

Chapter · January 1, 2014 This chapter examines the different issues in assessment and intervention planning for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), including persisting core deficits after treatment, cultural differences in family language use, and sensory integration impa ... Full text Cite

Preschool Predictors of Narrative Writing Skills in Elementary School Children

Journal Article School Psychology Quarterly · March 1, 2010 This study examined the preschool predictors of elementary school narrative writing skills. The sample included 65 typically developing African American children, ranging in age from 5.0 to 5.5 years, and was 44.6% male. Targeted preschool predictors inclu ... Full text Cite