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Bilingual Evaluation across the Lifespan

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Bilingual Evaluation across the Lifespan

As the US population becomes more diverse, the number of bilingual people needing services from speech-language pathologists continues to outgrow the number of bilingual service providers. This presentation will clarify myths surrounding use of interpreters and prepare monolingual and bilingual SLPs to determine difference vs. disorder.

Speaker: Jackie Rodriguez

Online Program
Thursday, February 26, 2026 
7:30-8:30pm

 

ASHA CEUs

.1 ASHA CEUs, Intermediate Level

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Time Ordered Agenda

Introductions

15 minutes: Legislation regarding service provision for Bilingual Clients

20 minutes: Assessment of Bilingual Children

20 minutes: Assessment of Bilingual Adults

5 minutes: Wrap up and Q&A

Learning Outcomes

  1. Participants will describe three strategies for working with interpreters.
  2. Participants will name and describe three sociocultural factors to consider during a bilingual assessment.
  3. Participants will provide three questions to aid in determining difference versus disorder in bilingual assessment.   

Speaker Bio

  • Jackie Rodriguez

    Jackie Rodriguez (she/her/ella) is a medical bilingual speech language pathologist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her Master of Science in Communications Sciences & Disorders from Georgia State University. Over the course of her career, Jackie has had a broad range of experiences working across the lifespan in both medical and educational settings as well as in travel therapy. She currently works full PRN in inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Jackie is African American and Afro Puerto Rican. She is a sequential L1 English and L2 Spanish speaker.

  • Speaker financial and non financial disclosure statements:

    Financial: 

    Jackie is the owner of Unlearn With Me Speech Services, LLC as well as a teacherspayteachers store by the same name, in which she sells speech pathology materials and professional development courses.

     

    Non-Financial:

    Jackie is the owner of the instagram account Unlearnwithme.theslp where she shares many of her professional views.

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