Identifying a Language Difference Versus Disorder in EL Students

Please note: This is a 2 day workshop. Content from Day 1 will support the content from Day 2. Please plan to attend both days.

Objectives:

Day 1:

• Identify red flags for language disorders in the EL population
• Complete a guided reflection based on an EL student from your school/district
• Receive a “toolkit” to support documenting concerns prior to referral
• Increase collaboration between special education staff and EL staff during the evaluation process

Day 2

• Document the need for a bilingual evaluation
• Identify appropriate formal and informal assessment measures for bilingual students,
• Work most efficiently with interpreters.
• Differentiate how you write bilingual, versus monolingual, evaluation report

Courtney Seidel, M.S., CCC-SLP joined the Department of Communicative Disorders in September 2015 with a joint appointment in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She is responsible for coordinating practica at outside school sites as well as supervising students in the University of Wisconsin Speech and Hearing Clinic (UWSHC). Courtney also supervises the Dane County Head Start speech and language screenings. She has experience working with children and adolescents in school, private practice, and home-based settings. Courtney's clinical interests include the areas of diagnostics, school-based services, and assessment of bilingual children. She has been an invited speaker at a number of school districts as well as state conventions. Courtney was awarded the Wisconsin Speech Language Pathologist of the Year in 2016.

Registration Fees:

$45 per participant for CESA 7 Title III Consortium Members

$185 per participant for CESA 7 Non-Title III Consoritum Members

$225 per participant for Non-CESA 7 districts

A light lunch is included

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