Financial Disclosure: Ellen Kester, Ph.D., CCC-SLP. Dr. Ellen Kester is the owner of Bilinguistics and receives a salary. Bilinguistics receives royalty payments for online courses. Non-Financial Disclosure: Ellen Kester does not have any non-financial relationships to disclose.

Financial Disclosure: Scott Prath, M.A., CCC-SLP is a salaried employee of Bilinguistics. Bilinguistics receives royalty payments for online courses.

Non-Financial Disclosure: Scott Prath does not have any non-financial relationships to disclose.

This course provided tools for interpreting scores when your student is not well-represented in the test norms and great information for obtaining language samples and other informal testing procedures. Participants listed reasons for testing both languages and described formal and informal measures for testing English learners (ELs).

Participants will:

List reasons for testing both languages
Describe formal and informal measures for testing English learners
Use tests when a student is not represented in the normative sample
Discuss ASHA guidelines for assessment with bilingual students
Identify red flags for speech and language impairment in bilingual children.
Identify sounds on the Goldman-Fristoe that are subject to second language influence
Time-Ordered Agenda
05 minutes Introduction and disclosure
15 minutes Current trends in the evaluation of children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
15 minutes ASHA guidelines for assessment with bilingual students
15 minutes Formal Assessment tools
20 minutes Informal Measures
10 minutes Red flags for speech and language impairment in bilingual children
10 minutes Identify sounds that are subject to second language influence
05 minutes Conclusion/Summary