ELLs (English Language Learners) in the Schools

ASHA Policy Documents

• Clinical Management of Communicatively Handicapped Minority Language Populations
• Cultural Competence in Professional Service Delivery
• Position Statement
• Professional Issues Statement
• 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

• Ethics, Equity, and English-Language Learners: A Decision-Making Framework
• 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 Legislation Information
• ASHA Analysis on IDEA Part C Final Regulations [PDF]
• IDEA Issue Brief: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students [PDF]
• No Child Left Behind Fact Sheet on English Language Learners [PDF]
• ASHA's SIG (Special Interest Group) Perspectives Newsletter Articles
• Pre-Referral Procedures: Meeting Unique Needs of English Language Learners [PDF]
• Perspectives on Communication Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations, March 2008 issue
• But They Don't Speak English: Bilingual Students and Speech-Language Services in the Schools [PDF]
• Growing Diversity in our Schools—Roles and Responsibilities of Speech-Language Pathologists [PDF]
• Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center's Dual Language Learning: What Does it Take?
• Assessing Preschool Dual Language Learners: Traveling a Multiforked Road by Elizabeth Peña and Tamara Halle
• Online module Teaching English lanuage learners: Effective Instructional Practices
• International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics Recommendations for Working with Bilingual Children
• Education Week's Learning the Language blog

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)

Does Learning Languages Make Kids Smarter?