Stephanie Downey Toledo is a bilingual speech language pathologist in New York City as well as a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has collaborated with the LEADERS project on this module series and others. Read More
Category: Vocabulary
Vocabulary refers to one’s mental lexicon. One’s vocabulary is dependent on prior exposure and socio-economic status (e.g., children from low-SES families are exposed to significantly less vocabulary than high-SES peers).
Reading Development Module 1: What does it mean to know a language?
Stephanie Downey Toledo is a bilingual speech language pathologist in New York City as well as a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has collaborated with the LEADERS project on this module series and others.
Test Review: CELF-5
The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF-5) was designed to assess a student’s language and communication skills in a variety of contexts, determine the presence of a language disorder, describe the nature of the language disorder, and plan for intervention or treatment.
Relevant Research: Discriminating Disorder from Difference Using Dynamic Assessment with Bilingual Children
Downloadable PDF: Research Summary- Discriminating Disorder from Difference Using Dynamic Assessment in Bilingual Children.pdf
This study builds on recent evidence of the usefulness of dynamic assessment (DA) along with a mediated learning experience (MLE) and graduated prompting as a more appropriate method of determining the presence of language disorder (LD) in culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) children. Read More
Test Review: CELF-4 Spanish
TestReview_CELF 4 Spanish_1.8.14.pdf
The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Spanish, Fourth Edition [CELF-4, Spanish] is a standardized test designed to assess the presence of a language disorder or delay in Spanish speaking children aged 5-21.
Test Resource Guide: Volume V- Communication/Language Assessment Tests of Language Proficiency
This resource, originally published in 1997, consists of reviews of standardized tests that are intended to measure language and communication skills. This volume is one in a series of guides for assessment in the New York City Public Schools. Read More
Test Review: Proceed with Caution PLeaSe- Writing Quality Evaluations ASHA 2013 Poster
Writing Quality Eval Poster Final.pdf
Cate Crowley and several recent graduates of the Teachers College Columbia University speech-language pathology program created and presented this poster at the ASHA convention in Chicago, 2013. Read More
Test Review: Proceed with Caution PLeaSe- Significant Biases within the PLS-5 ASHA 2013 Poster
Biases Poster ASHA final (1).pdf
Cate Crowley and several recent graduates of the Teachers College Columbia University speech-language pathology program created and presented this poster at the ASHA convention in Chicago, 2013. Read More
