Posts Tagged speech impairment
The Bilingual English Spanish Assessment
Posted by Elizabeth D. Peña in announcements, child bilingualism, grammar, speech sounds, vocabulary on November 10, 2013
We’re very excited to let everyone know that now, after a number of years of development and testing the BESA is available to speech-language pathologists.
WHAT IS THE BESA? WHAT DOES IT DO?
My co-authors and I developed the Bilingual English Spanish Assessment (BESA) in response to a critical need for valid, reliable instruments to assessment of speech and language ability in Spanish-English bilingual children. It focuses on children (ages 4 years, 0 months through 6 years, 11 months) who have varying levels of Spanish-English bilingualism. BESA was specifically developed to determine if speech and/or language errors observed in some young children were due to limited exposure to English or to a language impairment. We know that with time, children with typical development will learn a second language. But, at the same time, early intervention for children who have speech and language impairment is critical.
BESA Fan Page
Posted by Elizabeth D. Peña in announcements, child bilingualism, ESL, language impairment on July 27, 2013
We made a BESA fan page: https://www.facebook.com/besabilingual
When the test is ready to pre-order, when it’s published, or when we have other news we’ll post in the fan page. So, like it and you’ll be able to keep up with what’s going on with the BESA.
2 Languages 2 Worlds 