PA260: Screening Emergent Bilinguals for Reading Difficulties: Accounting for English Proficiency

Saturday, February 17, 2024
11:00 AM–11:50 AM CST

  • PMD: 1,6
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Poster Session 2: Assessment and Intervention in an RTI Framework

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. address the specific considerations when analyzing universal screening data for emergent bilingual students;
  2. create local norms to support accurate identification of students struggling with reading instead of language proficiency; and
  3. aid in making informed and equitable data-based decisions for emergent bilingual students.

Description

This study will present practitioners with a model to develop local norms based on English language proficiency in order to accurately identify emergent bilingual students with reading difficulties.

Presenter(s)

Rubel K. Dehal, CSU Monterey Bay
Monica Y. Laguna, CSU Monterey Bay
Tara Kulkarni, PhD, CSU Monterey Bay
Stephanie D'Costa, St Marys College

Contributor(s)

Elisa C. Garcia

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