Tuesday, March 9, 2010

3/9/10 meeting

****COMMENT TO THESE MINUTES TO GET CREDIT FOR THE MEETING!!!****

CIKD meetings this week
Explore UT was great! Thanks to those who came out!
next service- Forty Acres Fest

speaker: Ellen Kester- bilingual therapist in the acquistition of semantic skills in bilingual children, masters and undergrad here at UT
Founded company: Bilinguistics- serve school districts in central TX, everyone is bilingual and into research
Over 70% of students in Austin come from homes where English isn’t primary language, how do we differentiate from those students and those that have learning disabilities
Started company in 2002- given an assignment to do bilingual trainings as doctoral students, built modules for bilingual population, Early childhood intervention and schools were the main areas of focus
ECI- go into homes and train families to be providers for the children wasn’t working at first so developed bilingual materials to help them, parent handbooks to leave with family, very simple very specific assignments for the parents to do
Do lots of presentations as well as service
Now opening a clinic to serve more people, enormous need for slp with language skills and knowledge of bilingual acquisition of those students
Works with region 13 to create and provide programs in Spanish training with autism
Birth to 3years therapy is one on one, usually in the home
3-5yrs: some get halfday school program, work with teachers in room, literature based interventions, in schools mostly group intervention
Work with Barefoot Books, developed a program to go with their books
Try to match the day the child is having whether to use English/Spanish/bilingual during intervention
In schools try to use both languages; try to do intervention in the middle ground with sounds that are both in English and Spanish
when they hire someone: they try to get an understanding of applicants bilingual acquisition, ok if don’t know this b/c they can help you get on track to learn, trying to draw up guidelines for employers to discern bilingual applicants
Grad schools with bilingual program: get info about faculty and clinic and if they work well together, look if people are doing research in that area at the school, what are core competencies, how are they addressed, opportunities for off campus placement
To be bilingual- emerse yourself in Spanish, basics in classes and hear it and use it for several months to really understand it
She spent 6 months in Mexico
Can observe in schools or in their clinic, AISD do Spanish conversation nights once a week
Current research shows that bilinguals have more cognitive ability than monolinguals because they learn 2 languages so early, not detrimental to learn 2 languages early
They value home language of the family
Schools starting dual language programs for all students
Get knowledge of the culture- be up front with the family about cultural differences, be aware of the kinds of differences

ANNOUNCEMENTS!!

CIKD COMMITTEE MEETINGS ALL THIS WEEK!

KELLY NEEDS TSHA HOTEL MONEY BY FRIDAY 3-12-10!! ($60 for 2 nights)

45 comments:

  1. read the minutes! thanks.
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  6. Just finished reading the minutes!!!
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  7. read the minutes, holla, represent NSSHLA
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  9. Keepin it real w/ the minutes
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  12. Read the minutes! Makes me want to take Spanish!

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  15. Read the minutes. Very interesting.
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  16. Read the comments. Interesting.
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  18. Just read the minutes. Thanks!

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  19. Got 'em all read!!

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  20. I couldn't come to the meeting today but thanks for the info!

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  21. sorry I couldn't make it to meeting today, but thanks for the minutes!

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  27. Read it all and went to my CIKD meeting on Monday! See you soon! Thanks.

    Kelly Long
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  28. thanks!
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  29. Read the minutes. Wish I could have gone to the meeting. Spanish is my first language!

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  36. Read the minutes. It was very informative; I wish I could have made it to the meeting. Thank you!

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  38. I read the minutes! Thank you!
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  40. Read the minutes, thanks so much!

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  43. ^^^ Lopa Shah
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