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DIVERSITY ISSUES
CSHA Diversity Committee
Members
2002-2004
Lisa (Luna) DeCurtis---
Bettina Larroudé ---
Ellen Lamberth----
Kathy Schryver---
Henriette W. Langdon,
Chair---
WELCOME and THANK YOU
for READING OUR PAGE.
Please free to give us
your feedback and ideas.
The committee met on
September 6 and 7, 2002 to discuss plans for the next two years.
PLAN FOR 2002-2003
1-Five “Information
Sheets” will be developed by the committee to be reviewed by the CSHA
Board by September 2003 on the following topics: When accepted, they
will be available on the Diversity Page of the CSHA Website.
A-Language of
Intervention (Brochure) –Kathy
B-Issues in Training
Related to CLD Issues (Brief two-page report)-Ellen-as follow-up to
limited response to previous attempts to obtain information.
C-Establishing language
and cultural proficiency for clinical management (Brief two-page
report)-Bettina
D-Issues related to the
0-3 CLD population (Brief two-page report) -Luna
E-Issues related to the
older CLD population (Brief two-page report)-Henriette
All reports will include
five key references and key websites that relate to the topic.
2-Feeback from members
at the CSHA Monterey Spring conference (2003) will be collected.
Attendees to our seminar as well as BAMSHA/CABLSS participants will be
asked to write quick comments on each of the five areas presented, and
to rank in order of importance other “ Informational Sheets” they would
like to have developed the following year (From areas listed below). The
committee will select 7 to 8 of those areas to be voted on.
3-Documents ready for
pre-review amongst the Committee members by June 1st 2003
4- Henriette will
coordinate the documents and submit initial drafts to Mary Ann Christman
Phelps by September 2003.
5-When reviewed and
approved by the CSHA Board, we want to post these documents on the CSHA
Diversity Web page.
PLAN FOR 2003-2004
Based on feedback from
attendees at the conference, the committee will prioritize three to five
areas to be worked on during the 2003-2004 academic year.
Areas Considered:
These areas which are
listed below do not follow any particular order. Some of the topics are
already covered by either ASHA or other websites, but the committee
wishes to update them or make them more applicable to issues unique to
California.
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General Assessment
Issues pertaining the CLD Populations
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Intervention- Language
Use in the Home
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Clinician
Interaction/Training and Participation
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Scholarships and
Opportunities for Students who Wish to Specialize in Working with the
CLD Population.
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Connecting with SLP
Assistants who are Bilingual
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Check-off list of what
is normally expected in language acquisition in a dual environment.
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Working with
Interpreters and Translations
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Suggestions for
contacting persons from other cultures/languages
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Impact of
Gender/Age/SES differences
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Legal Considerations
when working with ELL Students
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Impact on Accent in
Clinical Delivery
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Language
Universals-What to know about child’s dual language development
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Transition into
literacy-
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. ELL students’
language proficiency assessment and language teaching.
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Linguistic/culturally
appropriate language for successful clinical management
(For the 2004 CSHA
conference we would like to offer a seminar on how to structure a course
to develop linguistic abilities for clinical services in a given
language for trainers of trainers workshops/clinical supervisors)
NEXT MEETINGS:
1-Face to face: February
7, 2003-12AM-4PM in San José.
This meeting precedes a
one-day workshop by Dr. Brian Goldstein (Temple University) on
Bilingual Phonology to be presented at San José State University on
February 8th, 2003. Date is confirmed.
2-Face to face:
Following the
CSHA presentation in Monterey in April 2003.
RESOURCES
FOR CLD POPULATIONS
NABE (National Association
of Bilingual Education)
NBCE(National Clearinghouse on Bilingual
Education)
CLAS (Culturally and
Linguistically Appropriate Services)
ASHA
Resources:
Children
and Bilingualism
Serving
a Multicultural Population >
Resources
in Spanish
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