Bilingual Considerations (Reading Development: Module 08)
In this module, Stephanie Downey Toledo explores considerations for students who are bilingual in regards to reading development.
Reading Comprehension (Reading Development: Module 07)
In this module, Stephanie Downey Toledo discusses reading comprehension as one of the five components of reading development
Reading Fluency (Reading Development: Module 06)
This module presents strategies to support the development of fluency in reading.
Phonics (Reading Development: Module 04)
In this module Stephanie Downey Toledo discusses phonics as the second component to reading development.
Phonemic Awareness (Reading Development: Module 03)
In this video, Stephanie Downey Toledo discusses phonemic development as part of reading development.
Role of the SLP in Literacy (Reading Development: Module 02)
In this video Stephanie Downey Toledo goes into the importance of SLPs in a schoolbase setting and the key role they play in literacy and reading development.
What does it mean to know a language? (Reading Development: Module 01)
This module examines the implicit knowledge that proficient/native speakers have about their language through a linguistic task.
Test Review: CELF-5
Parts of the CELF-5 can be used to probe for information and language samples, but its limitations prevent it from being used to identify disorder or disability.
(Hasson et al., 2013) Discriminating Disorder from Difference Using Dynamic Assessment with Bilingual Children
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.
Test Review: CELF-4 Spanish
The CELF-4 is a standardized test designed to assess the presence of a language disorder or delay in Spanish speaking children which should be used to probe for information and not to identify a disorder or disability.
