ELLs (English Language Learners) in the Schools

ASHA Policy Documents

• Clinical Management of Communicatively Handicapped Minority Language Populations
• Knowledge and Skills Needed by Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists to Provide Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
• Issues in Ethics: Cultural Competence
• Provision of Instruction of English as a Second Language by Speech-Language Pathologists in the Schools
• Position Statement
• Technical Report
• Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education

The ASHA Leader Articles

• Service Delivery to English Language Learners in the Public Schools: A National Survey
• The Ethics of Assessment With Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations
• A Tale of Two Languages
• Biliteracy and Second-Language Learners
• Assessing Speakers with Limited English Proficiency

Additional Resources

• ASHA's Sample Syllabi Bilingual and Cross-Cultural Assessment
• ASHA's Reading List Bilingualism, ELL, LEP and ESL
• ASHA's Legislation Information
• IDEA Issue Brief: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students [PDF]
• No Child Left Behind Fact Sheet on English Language Learners [PDF]
• ASHA's Web site English Language Learner in the Schools Presentations
• ASHA's SID (Special Interest Division) Perspectives Newsletter Articles
• Pre-Referral Procedures: Meeting Unique Needs of English Language Learners
• Perspectives on Communication Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations, March 2008
• "But They Don't Speak English: Bilingual Students and Speech-Language Services in the Schools
• Growing Diversity in our Schools- Roles and Responsibilities of Speech-Language Pathologists

Professional Development

Continuing education programs from ASHA on English language learners in the Schools

Consumer Information

Learning  More than One Language

Center for Applied Linguistics' Raising Bilingual Children: Common Parental Concerns and Current Research (English) and La Crianza de Niños Bilingües: Preocupaciones Comunes de los Padres y las Investigaciones Actuales (Spanish)