Bilingual Speech-Language and Educational Evaluations

Bilingual Speech-Language and Educational Evaluations _________________________________________________________________

by Deborah Chitester Paperback
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“Bilingual Speech and Educational Evaluations” is the latest book from SECOND LANGUAGE, LITERACY & LEARNING CONNECTION, LLC as a response to the cry from many practitioners struggling with the accurate method to evaluate children who are Early Language Learners. The book includes specific guidance as to how to conduct ethnographic surveys of parents which are critical to differential diagnosis of difference versus disorder; how to present critical information in a non biased way relevant for culturally linguistically diverse children; and conveyance of information relative to formulating a plan to determine who needs to be evaluated and in what language. Lastly this book will teach how to provide accurate and timely information to parents during an assessment as to validate the results obtained during the assessment process.

Overall practitioners will be provided information on dynamic assessment and an alternative testing procedure that is non-biased in nature and validly depicts language and literacy learning potential of diverse learners. This guide provides examples from this author’s professional journals containing actual reports and examples of how to present information in the LANGUAGE BACKGROUND AND USE sections of reports as well as information necessary to put forth in the ETHNOGRAPHIC SECTION of the report.

This is the closest this author has come to laying down her version of a cook book method of presentation of abstract material into an organized how to guide. This will avail information to the reader that will help guide their understanding of SLA they can use when working with clients and their families.

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"Deborah's new book Bilingual Speech-Language and Educational Evaluations provides a user friendly, common-sense recipe for professionals charged with conducting assessments with ELLs and clarifies the requirements of such an assessment for administrators" B. Muller, CCC/SLP

“The material presented in the book is down-to-earth, practical, easy to understand, and long overdue. What educator has not struggled with labeling issues, particularly in cases where a student is classified in such a way that he or she does not end up getting the help, support, and educational framework that would really help. Particularly with second language learners, we professionals owe it to our students to leave no stone unturned in our search for the underlying causes of second language learning problems.” Rob Siedenburg, former foreign language teacher and publishing specialist

Table of Contents
Chapter 1	Introduction
Chapter 2	What a Bilingual Speech-Language or Educational Evaluation Needs to Include
Chapter 3	Estimates of Communicative or Cognitive Behavior
Chapter 4	How to Determine the Language of Assessment to Be Used
Chapter 5	Use of Interpreters During Testing of Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Children
Chapter 6	How to Conduct a Language Sampling Analysis
Chapter 7	What to Do When the Parent Declares That the Child Only Speaks English
Chapter 8	Dynamic Assessment and the Limitations of Standardized Testing
Chapter 9	Use of Informal Data Additional Caveats Relevant to the Task of Evaluating Diverse Learners
Chapter 10	How to Tell the Difference Language Disorder Versus Linguistic Difference
Chapter 11	Educational Evaluations of Students with No or Low Literacy in the First Language
Chapter 12	Types of Recommendations to be Offered or Suggested in the “Conclusions” Section of the Report
Chapter 13	Doing a Second-Language Analysis Instead of a Complete Bilingual Assessment

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Deborah J. Chitester, M.S. C.C.C. is certified as a Bilingual Speech Language Pathologist and has a practice, Second Language, Literacy and Learning Connection LLC, in New Jersey. Most of her professional career has involved working with children who are culturally and linguistically diverse. She has emerged as an expert in this area and is frequently a presenter at professional conferences concerning this topic.

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