Is your school district having difficulty obtaining bilingual assessments for its students that are not native English speakers?

Many variables make each bilingual experience its very own. Speakers with bilingual speech disorders require specific care from bilingual speech-language pathologists who must be able to provide comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services for speech, language, and cognitive disorders using the client’s/patient’s language. They must also have the linguistic proficiency to:

• describe the process of normal speech and language acquisition—for both bilingual and monolingual speakers of that language, including how those processes are manifested in oral and written language;
• select administer, and interpret formal and informal assessment procedures to distinguish between communication differences and communication disorders;
• apply intervention strategies for treatment of communication disorders in the language or mode of communication most appropriate for the needs of the individual.

Yakos Therapy provides comprehensive, bilingual assessments to area school districts and welcome the opportunity to discuss the specific needs of your students.