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How Does a Growth Mindset Apply to Trauma-Exposed Students?

Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin, PhD, CCC-SLP, F-ASHA

January 1, 2023

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How does a growth mindset apply to trauma-exposed students?

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We need to tap into the base of knowledge and core of resilience that trauma-exposed students bring to the educational process. We should view them through the lens of an asset-based stance that focuses on their resilience, determination, talents, and skills that will be key to fulfilling their future hopes and dreams.

To do this, we can train students to use positive self-talk and develop a growth mindset. They can learn to choose between learned helplessness (a result of the trauma) and the ability to work hard and make good choices in order to experience positive consequences. The growth mindset takes good fortune out of the realm of good luck and places it solidly into the hands of students.

To successfully implement a growth mindset, it is important to emphasize hard work and effort, not innate talent, as key to success (Dweck, 2016). Instead of saying “you’re so smart!” we should say things like, “You got a good grade on that test because you worked hard and studied for many hours.” “Your /r/ sound is a lot better, and I can tell that you have been practicing your /r/ words at home with your mom.”

This Ask the Expert is an excerpt from the course, 20Q: Providing Supportive Intervention for Trauma-Exposed Students With Communication Disorders, presented by Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin, PhD CCC-SLP, F-ASHA


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Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin, PhD, CCC-SLP, F-ASHA

Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University.  She is a Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at California State University, Sacramento.  Dr. Roseberry is also currently a part-time itinerant speech pathologist in San Juan Unified School District where she provides direct services to students from preschool through high school.  Dr. Roseberry’s primary research interests are in the areas of assessment and treatment of culturally and linguistically diverse students with communication disorders as well as service delivery to students from low-income backgrounds.  She has over 70 publications, including 17 books, and has made over 600 presentations at the local, state, national, and international levels.  Dr. Roseberry is a Fellow of ASHA, and winner of ASHA’s Certificate of Recognition for Special Contributions in Multicultural Affairs as well as the Excellence in Diversity Award from CAPCSD. She has received ASHA’s Honors of the Association.  She received the national presidential Daily Point of Light Award for her volunteer work in building literacy skills of children in poverty. Dr. Roseberry lived in the Philippines as the daughter of Baptist missionaries from ages 6 to 17.


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