We often talk about the increasing diversity of our caseloads. It is a reality that we have caseloads with individuals from many different countries who speak many different languages. That’s why we worked with speech-language pathologists all over the country to...
The field of stuttering has changed a lot over the past couple of decades. The problem is that many of the previous “truths” are still thought of as truths, like the idea that we should not bring attention to stuttering in young children because it might exacerbate...
When I do workshops for school districts that focus on conducting speech-language evaluations for bilingual students, one of the questions I get a lot is, “Is it okay to target cross-linguistic influence patterns (also called native language influence patterns) in...
Structured Literacy Intervention for ALL Students Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan’s gave a workshop on how SLPs can incorporate structured literacy components into their intervention to support all students—especially those from diverse backgrounds who speak English as an...
I recently sat down with fellow speech-language pathologist, Kari Lavelle, to talk about her experiences as an author who places a high importance on books on diversity. Kari has written three non-fiction children’s books about diversity that incorporate experiences...