For Administrators and School Systems:
- Best Practice for ELL learners
- Addressing the needs of diverse student and parent populations
- How to enhance family involvement in the school community
- Hiring staff with the skills and competencies to be effective in ESL, Bilingual and Dual Language Programs
- Formative and Summative evaluation of programs for ELLs
Bilingual Psychological and Speech and Language Traditional Assessment
- Social history
- IQ and processing
- Social emotional well-being
- Comprehensive speech and language evaluation
- Articulation
For Teachers and Para Professionals:
- Teaching phonological awareness and PA and phonics instruction for typically developing as well as at risk spanish speakers
- Dynamic assessment of early literacy skills for Spanish speakers
- Problem solving and progress monitoring for at-risk and special education ELL students
- Strategies for transitioning ELL students to English literacy instruction
- Differentiation for ELLs with learning problems in the regular education classroom
- Training of para-professionals for resource level reading and math instruction for ELLs with learning problems
For Parents:
Parent Workshops in Spanish on:
- Language development
- Early literacy
- Parenting/discipline
- Communicating with school personnel
- Understanding special education
- Evaluation
- IEPs
- Categorical diagnoses/placements
- Home support
- Parent rights and responsibilities