Speech-Language-Hearing - Bilingual Speech-Lang Asm&Itv

Catalog description

This course will address best practices for conducting appropriate, least-biased assessment and intervention with bilingual populations, specifically English learners (ELs). We will examine topics covering the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of speech (phonology; fluency) and language (morphosyntax; semantics) skills distributed across two languages in bilingual individuals with speech and or language disorders. We will also explore issues pertinent to bilingual clinical service delivery including federal law mandates, working with interpreters, cultural sensitivity and humility with multicultural populations (children and caregivers), consideration of dialectal variation, non-standardized assessment and intervention approaches, ongoing assessment during intervention, writing measurable intervention goals for bilingual speakers, advocating for bilingual families, and problematic clinical scenarios. The course will primarily focus on bilingual speech-language assessment and intervention with Spanish-speaking ELs. However, the underlying core clinical principles and approaches apply to ELs who speak languages other than Spanish.