English Language Learners: Speech-Language Pathologists

In the United States, there has been an increase in in the number of children from Spanish speaking backgrounds. The English Language Learners, commonly known as ELL’s, are being placed in Special Education without being properly tested for a learning disability. However there are a large number of ELL’s with learning disabilities in elementary grades that truly have a learning disability and are over looked. Many school districts have problems placing ELL’s. As a result these students end up in special education whether they have a learning disability or language impairment. Teachers are also indecisive when dealing with ELL’s. Most teachers recommend that ELL’s

Speech Language Pathologists (SLP) are professionals who diagnose and treat patients who have difficulty with language and speech. Patients have a speech disorder if they have trouble generating proper or fluent speech sounds. A person who has problems with resonance also has a speech disorder. A SLP teaches patients with speech disorders how to coordinate the muscles in their mouth to pronounce certain sounds. Patients with language disorders have difficulty expressing their own ideas or understanding others. A SLP will help a patient with language disorders learn how to form words together in order to communicate. SLPs also treat patients with social communication disorders. People with social communication disorder are usually those who have autism or have suffered a

Each year, schools across the nation are seeing an increase in the amount of English language learners they are receiving. Teachers of all grade levels are finding it harder and harder to teach these ELLs because of lack of or little to no proper training. So the article, Setting the Foundation for Working with English Language Learners in the Secondary Classroom aims to show you the ideas and strategies that current and future teachers can incorporate into their daily class lessons to make them more effective in meeting the academic needs of ELLs and in helping them learn the target language.

For my research I have chosen to discuss the key role of a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP). Speech Language Pathologists can best be recognized as qualified practitioners that identify, diagnose and treat communicative disorders (Serpanos & Senzer, 2015). There are two types of disorders that a SLP can be used for: speech disorder and language disorder. A speech disorder can best be described as a person that has trouble producing sounds correctly or fluently. A language disorder is recognized as someone who has trouble expressing thoughts, feelings and ideas through speech. SLP’s are taught how to treat each pf these disorders.

Speech pathologist work had to help their younger patients as much as they can to see their patients to succeed in life, but they can only do so much in a certain amount of time. Parents need to do their part in their child in life. Parents need to look in to their child disorder and find out how they can help their child. They can also help their child with their school work to see with wat their child is struggling in and tell the pathologist to see if there is a connection with their disorder. Parents need to have a weekly teacher-parent conference to see if there’s any change in the

A speech-language pathologist trained to observe people as they speak and to identify their speech problems. Speech-language pathologists identify specific speech disorder people have. Not only determine the disorder speech-language pathologists examine how and when the disorder occurs. After the tests, child with speech disorder start treatment. Part of your treatment plan may include seeing a speech therapist, a person who trained to treat speech disorders. Language intervention activities, Articulation therapy, and Oral-motor/feeding and swallowing therapy are the name of therapies. Most treatment plans include breathing practice, relaxation approach that is planning to relax muscles when people speak, posture manages, and a type of voice

With the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 came a requirement for local and state educational providers to be accountable for the academic progress of all children in their care including English language learners. This paper will examine two common assessments used by states and districts to meet the requirement of this legislation: WIDA's ACCESS for ELLs and Ballard and Tighe's IPT test. Both of these standard-based tests are used for similar purposes, but they have some differences too, namely that one tests BICS and general CALP, while the other tests a wider range of academic domain language.

Figure 3 shows that non-ELL students outperform ELL students by approximately 23% points (FLDOE EdStats, 2017). Trends of the graphs in Figure 3 also show that the achievement gap between ELL and non-ELL students has increased over the past three school years. Data pulled from Performance Matters shows that 13% or 46 students taking the Algebra 1 End of Course exam are ELL students (Performance Matters, 2017). Figure 4 shows that students without disabilities outperform students with disabilities. In addition, data from the Florida Department of Education EdStats page shows not one student with a disability was proficient on the Algebra 1 End of Course Exam for the 2016-2017 school year. This is a very important data point because school

English Language Learner are students who are still developing proficiency in English. They represent one in nine students in U.S. classrooms from pre-kindergarten through grade 12. As I researched the testing of English Language Learners, I came across many key points they will help me as well as my cohorts in assessing these students and to better understand their educational necessities. The most critical point is that the various assessments for English Language Learners must be valid and fair. Though this is no easy feat, it is vital to improving the educational opportunities of language-minority students.

Clinical Evaluation of Language Evaluations – 3rd edition (CELF-III) This standardized test assessed the language scores of children between the ages of 6 to 21 years. Developmental language scores were developed based upon receptive and expressive language abilities. All language

Homes all across Australia speak more than one language. This includes the large amount of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander languages and dialects present across the country. The growing diversity of Australia is reflected in the amount of students who are classified as EAL/D learners. EAL/D learners are students whose first language is either a dialect or language other than English.

Knowing that most of the students come from low income families, I can sympathize, and will not burden the families with excessive purchases of materials outside of what the school can provide, but I will not lower my expectations of my students. From the standpoint of working with student from diverse backgrounds, I believe prior years of travel outside of the United States have given me an appreciation of other cultures and their an understanding of their contributions to the world. It would be also mindful to observe if some of the students are struggling with English. Once the English Language Learners (ELL’s) are identified, appropriate instruction can be given to assist the student(s) with slower instruction that is not packed with excessive

English Language Learners (ELL) constituted 9.5% of the students in the United States in the school year 2012-2013. That is equivalent to 4.4 million students and the number seems to be growing. These statistics call for special training for educators in the United States so they can tackle any problem due to language barriers. It is important for teachers to understand the difference between Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) to better understand and instruct english language learners.

Clinical Evaluation of Language Evaluations – 3rd edition (CELF-III) This standardized test assessed the language scores of children between the ages of 6 to 21 years. Developmental language scores were developed based upon receptive and expressive language abilities. All language scores had a mean

The increasing number of English language learners has triggered great attention on how to teach academic content and literacy to English language learners in elementary and middle school classrooms. This article takes four instructions into account aiming at school practitioners involving vocabulary, writing, reading and collaborative conversation. Also, the paper addresses the importance of using responsive literacy instructions for English language learners with learning disabilities. Additionally, three key principles of learning are integrated into those instructions in order to help English language learners not only accomplish academic literacy and language proficiency but also become life-long learners.