Providing services for culturally and linguistically diverse families
Looking for tips about providing services to culturally and linguistically diverse families? Want to improve your Spanish? Even if you don’t speak a second language fluently, every little bit helps! See below for valuable information about collaborating with families and interpreters, guidelines for providing bilingual services, videos of Spanish dialects from around the world, and resources for practicing your Spanish.
FPG Connect Module: Family-Professional Partnerships
This module provides training on establish positive family-professional partnerships.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Practice Portal: Bilingual service delivery
ASHA provides a helpful overview of providing bilingual speech-language pathology services.
ASHA Practice Portal: Collaborating with interpreters
ASHA’s guidelines for creating successful partnerships with interpreters
The Ohio State University: The Sounds of Spanish
This digital catalog provides video clips of Spanish dialects from around the world. This resource is useful for helping to determine if an individual’s speech production is typical of a certain region or for practicing your listening skills.
Slow News in Spanish
Practice your Spanish skills by listening to these articulate and slow-speaking news anchors.
University of Texas at Austin: Spanish proficiency exercises
More Spanish practice! This page provides video clips of native Spanish speakers, along with tips for improving your vocabulary and grammar.