Dr. Cate Crowley walks us through an appropriate evaluation of a culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) preschooler, previously misdiagnosed. She takes us from the parent interview, to interacting with the child, writing the evaluation and even formulating appropriate IEP goals.
This is a special education field advisory that was released in December, 2014. It details the use of standardized scores with culturally and linguistically diverse children.
Module 6 in this series discusses real world applications in disability evaluations.
Module 5 in this series outlines some morphosyntactic features of American English dialects relating to the use of phrases, clauses and sentences.
Module 4 in this series outlines some morphosyntactic features of American English dialects relating to the use of adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions.
Module 3 in this series outlines some morphosyntactic features of American English dialects relating to the use of verbs.
Module 2 in this series outlines some morphosyntactic features of American English dialects relating to the use of nouns, determiners and pronouns.
Module 1 outlines key considerations in the differentiation between a language disorder and a language difference. Find the other modules in this series below.
In this module, Stephanie Downey Toledo explores considerations for students who are bilingual in regards to reading development.
This study builds on recent evidence of the usefulness of dynamic assessment (DA) along with a mediated learning experience (MLE) and graduated prompting as a more appropriate method of determining the presence of language disorder (LD) in culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) children.
