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Multilingual Typicality vs. Speech-language Disorder
Photo by minka6 Any assessment involves a comparison. For assessment purposes, we use comparison always one way. We compare X to Y, never Y to X, because we have satisfied ourselves of two conditions:...
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Language Development after Adoption
Photo by woodleywonderworks My husband and I met our children and our grandchildren at a restaurant the other day. I stayed with my grandchildren at the table while their parents were busy gathering...
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Gone to Ghana
Each year, masters’ students from the Teachers College Columbia University program in speech language pathology travel to Ghana to provide services and share skills and understanding with Ghanaian...
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Apps for Bilingual SLPs and English-speaking speech therapists working with...
I am a bilingual speech pathologist, and for those of you who work with Spanish-speaking children you know how frustrating it can be trying to get ready for therapy. Most of the time we are limited to...
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Bolivia Bound
This month, for the sixth year in a row, 16 master’s students from Teachers College Columbia University and four ASHA-certified SLPs travel to La Paz, Bolivia to provide free services to children...
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Hearing Health and Development Following Adoption
Photo by woodleywonderworks All my life I have been blessed with excellent hearing perception and health. Now due to my mold allergies, I have started to have fluid in my middle ear when the humidity...
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Swallowing and Feeding Issues with Internationally Adopted Children
Photo by Masahiro Ihara My children were “picky eaters.” One would only eat peanut butter and jelly, frozen pizza, chicken nuggets or macaroni and cheese. The other one would only eat frozen pizza and...
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Recommending Monolingualism to Multilinguals – Why, and Why Not
Photo by Oh-Barcelona.com In cases of suspected or confirmed clinical disorder among bilingual/multilingual children, one common recommendation is to have the children “switch to one language.” This...
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Relationship and Communication Development in Children Adopted From Abroad
When my grand-daughter was born, I made a conscious decision to visit her every month. Not only did I want to observe her development on a regular basis, I also wanted her to interact with me...
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On the Brink of Kindergarten: Placement of Bilingual Students
As a preschool-based speech-language pathologist in New York City, I get a number of bilingual children on my caseload every year. Many of them are sequential bilingual learners, with English being...
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