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Talks for Talks for professionals working with bilingual children Australian Newsletter for Bilingual
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 CONSULTANCY Talks For Professionals Working With
Bilingual Children Summaries of talks: Speech pathology
assessment strategies for bilingual children. The talk provides an overview of the practices
among speech pathologists when assessing children from culturally and
linguistically diverse backgrounds. It is based on survey data collected in
Victoria. The talk addresses the "best practice" requirements made
in the literature and in the Australian guidelines and considers strategies
for overcoming barriers to "best practice". back to available talks back to top Effects of
bilingualism on cognitive development and success in school. This talk reviews the available research on
bilingual children's cognitive development during the primary school years,
phonemic awareness, and transferability
of knowledge and skills between languages. Issues of continuing or
discontinuing the home language will be presented to the audience for
consideration. Consideration will further be given to strategies for children
with developmental disorders and
language delay. back to available talks back to top When should
bilingual children be referred to a speech pathologist? Bilingual children have been shown to be both over-
and underrepresented in speech pathology services. This talk discusses normal
bilingual development, the relationship between language disorders and
bilingualism, indicators of the need for professional intervention which may
be useful for deciding whether a child should be referred to a speech
pathologist, and makes suggestions for help which professionals can offer to
bilingual children and their parents. This talk is aimed at professionals
working with bilingual preschool and primary school children. back to available talks back to top Cultivating
bilingualism as a value added resource. This talk will give an overview of the positive
aspects of bilingualism for children's development at home and at school. The
advantages, which the research shows bilingualism to bring, will be
reconciled with the frequent experiences of teachers that children from
culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds struggle academically.
Suggestions will be made for supporting bilingual children's language
development for success at school. back to available talks back to top Bilingual
children in the LOTE classroom. This talk addresses issues in family bilingualism
and explores the role which LOTE instructions in school plays for NESB
families. In particular it looks at the needs of LOTE-background children for
grammar instruction and vocabulary and register extension, and ways the LOTE
teacher can support the further development of the LOTE at home. back to available talks back to top Extent, form and
reasons of cross-linguistic influences in the language development of
bilingual pre-schoolers and ways of dealing with them. This talk provides theoretical insights into why
children mix languages. Participants will come to understand that language mixing
is in part developmental and in part environmental. Strategies will be
discussed for limiting environmental causes of language mixing and thus
supporting the child to become a competent user of both English and the other
languages in his or her life. more back to available
talks back to top Last updated: April 16th, 2010 |
