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I am a freshman, studying pre-nursing and psychology. I aspire to be a labor and delivery nurse or a therapist. I enjoy research where the findings have a direct impact to better society.

Speech Pathologists Serving Diverse Children

Abstract

English being a second language is common now in days. The number of multicultural persons has grown over more than the last decade, meaning more people in the United States have limited English and their children are also limited English proficient (LEP). These children need speech language pathologists (SLP) in order to be successful in America, but these SLPs have many challenges when serving children with such diversity culturally and linguistically (CLD).
We asked a number of speech pathologists what challenges they have experienced and what resources have they found helpful when serving those diverse children. We asked in order to answer how comfortable SLPs are with helping develop literacy of CLD students, what beliefs SLPs hold about CLD students, if there is correlation between preparation and comfortability, and if their comfortability and beliefs relate to their previous trainings.
The purpose of this study is to better understand the challenges faced by speech pathologists.
Roseberry-McKibbin, Celeste A., And Glenn E. Eicholtz. “Serving Children With Limited English Proficiency In The Schools: A National Survey.” Language, Speech & Hearing Services In Schools, Vol. 25, No. 3, ASHA, 1994, Pp. 156–64, Https://Doi.Org/10.1044/0161-1461.2503.156.

Keywords: Speech Pathologists Diverse Children Language