As an SLP who works with multilingual students, you might have questions like: What are the best tools for evaluating multilingual children? How do I assess a child whose language I do not speak? What role does translanguaging play in intervention? This webinar reexamines codeswitching through a translanguaging lens, offering practical strategies for delivering more equitable services and making accurate diagnoses in multilingual settings. You will gain tools to better assess, treat, and support multilingual clients, ensuring that cultural and linguistic diversity is validated and incorporated into your clinical practice.

Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:

• Describe evidence-based strategies to conduct multilingual assessments and accurately diagnose communication disorders in multilingual children
• Integrate culturally responsive services into your clinical work with multilingual clients
• Develop intervention strategies that leverage translanguaging to enhance communication outcomes in multilingual children
• Explain the relevance of translanguaging theory and pedagogy to communication sciences and disorders

Course Reviews

"I am so happy that this course addressed code switching and translanguaging. It is very helpful to look at our language system as one in which all languages are based and not one in which there are many other separate systems. I have often wondered how improving one language's vocabulary and structure tends to improve the other without direct intervention in the native one."

"I loved the case studies and how you elicited questions from the crowd for engagement. It made us think about our experiences and also reflect on what we learned from the course."

"This was a very enlightening course and it helped me become a more knowledgeable SLP."

DEI Professional Development Requirement

This course counts toward the ASHA certification maintenance professional development requirement for DEI (which encompasses cultural competency; cultural humility; culturally responsive practice; and diversity, equity, and inclusion). See more courses that count toward this requirement or read more about professional development requirements for certification maintenance.

Presenter Information

Carla Kekejian, PhD, CCC-SLP (she/her/hers) serves as a lecturer within the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at California State University, Long Beach. She earned her PhD in speech-language pathology, along with her clinical MS in speech-language pathology, from the University of Utah. Before joining the University of Utah, Dr. Kekejian attained her MA in Education (Division of Human Development and Psychology) from UCLA. As an academic and practicing speech-language pathologist, Dr. Kekejian has devoted her career to developing more equitable assessment and treatment approaches for multilingual children with language disorders. When she is not engaged in teaching or advancing research projects, she dedicates her time to providing speech-language services to pediatric populations in her private practice.

Financial Disclosures:

• Financial compensation from ASHA for this presentation

Nonfinancial Disclosures:

• None

Assessment Type

Self-assessment—Think about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your new knowledge.

To earn continuing education credit, you must complete and submit the learning assessment by the end date below.

Program History and CE Information

Live webinar date: October 24, 2024
End date: October 26, 2029

This course is offered for 0.2 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).