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Difference or Disorder Essentials Pack

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Is it a speech-language difference or disorder? We do workshops across the nation to help speech-language pathologists and other educators answer this question.  Now we are making these workshops available to you in the comfort of your own home or school.  We have combined two of our most powerful workshops with our Difference or Disorder? book, to help you build confidence in your work with diverse learners.  The courses provide a framework for understanding typical patterns in bilingual speech and language development.  We use case studies to show you how to apply the framework.  The book is filled with valuable resources that show how different languages compare to English.  This helps you know what patterns you might expect to see in English language learners from different backgrounds.

This essentials pack includes:

  • Video Course:  Difference or Disorder – Speech Development
  • Video Course:  Difference or Disorder – Language Development
  • Book: Difference or Disorder? Understanding Speech and Language Patterns in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

Together we can serve diverse students well and reduce our caseloads!

Difference or Disorder?: Language Development in English Language Learners

Successfully separate language differences caused by second language influence from true disorder.  Learn about language structures that are affected by bilingualism as well as developmental errors, cross-linguistic errors, and atypical errors.  READ MORE...

ASHA Approved This course is offered for 0.2 ASHA CEUs (Professional area, Introductory level).
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Difference or Disorder? Speech Development in English Language Learners

Learn whether certain articulation errors that a bilingual child produces should be counted as incorrect.  The sound systems of a bilingual child’s two languages interact in predictable ways.  Using Spanish and English as an example, this course provides a framework for identifying “errors” that are typical and those that are atypical.  READ MORE...

ASHA Approved This course is offered for 0.15 ASHA CEUs (Professional area, Introductory level).

Difference or Disorder? Understanding Speech and Language Patterns in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

Rapidly identify speech-language patterns related to second language acquisition to distinguish difference from disorder. Determining whether a student's speech and language errors result from influences from their native language or whether they are indicative of speech or language impairment is a challenge many educators face.

1 review for Difference or Disorder Essentials Pack

  1. Katie –

    This is one of my favorite resources! I literally use it everyday. Keep this book within reach because you will you use it ALL the TIME if you are working with multicultural cases.

    This book has reshaped my consideration of difference vs. disorder and given me a tool to help others follow along with my thinking.
    The Venn diagrams that compare the target language and English give an at-a-glance resources that makes this information accessible for SLPs and non-SLPs alike!

    Can’t wait for the next edition!

    • Ellen Kester –

      Thank you, Katie! It makes me so happy to hear that this book makes a difference!
      Best, Ellen Kester

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