Best Practices in Bilingual/Multicultural Assessment for Practitioners

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The purpose of this course is to provide future speech-language pathologists, educational diagnosticians and special educators with a foundation for evaluating the linguistic, cognitive and academic skills of students from any cultural linguistic background. The course covers a review of the literature on best practices for working with interpreters during assessments. Practitioners will be expected to gather qualitative information about cultural/linguistic and educational histories of school-age children and integrate those results with the results of standardized tests. Restricted to: C DS,C D majors. By the time of graduation, all SPHS courses need to be passed with a B or better. May be repeated up to 6 credits.