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Bilingual Children with Disabilities Upcoming Workshop Objectives

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Dec 242011

Workshop: Special Considerations and Challenges in Assessment and Treatment of Bilingual Children with Developmental Disabilities

Date; January 25th 2012

By the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

•Identify skills and knowledge necessary to qualify a practitioner to be called a bilingual SLP

•Identify and describe cultural and linguistic variables that may impact speech-language pathology services to bilingual/bicultural children

•Explain typical language development for monolingual and bilingual speakers

•Explain the process of second language acquisition in children.

•Contrast communication differences and communication disorders in bilingual children

•Discuss research driven evidence based practice (EBP) assessment strategies for bilingual clients with communication disorders.

•Illustrate potential limitations of standardized tests

•Explain how to use alternative, non standardized methods to reduce assessment bias

•Describe research driven evidence based practice (EBP) treatment techniques for bilingual children with speech-language disorders.

Upcoming Workshop Information

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Dec 142011

Workshop Title: Special Considerations and Challenges in Assessment and Treatment of Bilingual Children with Developmental Disabilities

Date: January 25th 2012

Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM Special Considerations and Challenges in Assessment and Treatment of Bilingual Children with Developmental Disabilities

Eligible Hours: Six (6) Professional Development Hours

Learning Community: Speech/Language Specialists/Therapists, Special Education Teachers, Administrators, Child Study Team Members, Guidance Counselors, Psychologists, Social Workers.

Registration: $120 Full Tuition, $100 PDA Subscription Members

Location: Professional Development Academy, 1690 Stelton Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, (732) 777-9848 Ext. 3560

Description: While many children who learn several languages during childhood exhibit appropriate language milestones in both languages, there are some children who present with evident dual language acquisition difficulties, often without a clear reason for the delay. These children are frequently referred for diagnostic assessments due to their dual language based learning deficits (which typically begin to manifest in their primary language first). This workshop will focus on how to provide effective evidence based practice diagnostic and treatment services to bilingual children with suspected and confirmed language deficits. It will discuss normal developmental progression of dual language learning, describe how language impairment signs manifest in bilingual children, list assessment challenges, explain unequal linguistic skills distribution (how communicative and cognitive language mastery differ from home/community vs. school environment) as well as go over latest clinical approaches to assessment and intervention of bilingual children.

Please see attached flyer for more information