We also provide staff development in the following areas:
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
- Formative and Summative evaluation of programs for ELLs
Speech and Language Traditional Assessment
- Comprehensive speech and language evaluation
- Articulation
RtI entitlement Guidance for ELL Students
- Teaching phonological awareness and PA and phonics instruction for typically developing as well as at risk spanish speakers
- Formative 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
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