by Kristin | May 21, 2013
Today was our first day at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. The teaching hospital is located in Kumasi, Ghana. When we arrived we met Albert Osei-Bagyina, the only speech therapist who works at the hospital. The faculty at Teachers College created English and Twi...
by Kristin | Mar 6, 2013
In the last few years, three important articles studying the usefulness of dynamic assessment (DA) procedures as diagnostic tools in identifying language impairment (LI) have been published. DA is especially important to SLPs working with culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) children because it has been shown to be less biased against those individuals than traditional methods of assessment (i.e., static assessment).
by Kristin | Mar 3, 2013 |
One of the biggest sources of bias in standardized tests is the fact that the tests are written by and designed for speakers of Standard American English. Part of the work of LEADERS is to show that we live in a world full of dialectal variations and that these...
by Kristin | Mar 3, 2013 |
While traditionally many SLPs practiced only the pull-out service delivery model, this has been changing in recent years and the expectation that school SLPs provide services using the push-in model is increasingly common. In New York City, Chancellor of the Depart of...
