Tamara Naparstek, a bilingual (Spanish-English SLP) has much experience developing collaborative relationships with psychologists and school psychologists to shift the approach from "testing students" to providing culturally responsive and evidence-based assessments and evaluations." In this video Tamara shares approaches and innovations she and psychologists/school psychologists she works with to ensure that all students receive quality and accurate evaluations. The first thing she did was to make sure she herself knew the research and the skills needed to provide culturally and linguistically responsive speech-language evaluations. Then she worked to share the information, explain her approach, and in doing so developed strong relationships that allowed the then score-based approach to be replaced with more accurate and evidence-based practice.
Tamara additionally shares how the students in the schools with more cultural and linguistic diversity, and lower socio-economic status, were overwhelmingly misidentified as having a speech-language disorder. Often the district is already under pressure to address the disproportionate identification of minority and ELL/ENL/DLL students for special education. That can often be the level to open discussion on current practices.
11 сен 2024
