What We Do
Bilingual Assessment Team personnel work with the ESOL bilingual counselors, ESOL Parent Services, The International Students Admission Office, families
of students, schools, and central and field office personnel to support the school individualized Education Program Teams in collaborative problem
solving, addressing the needs of English Language Learners who are suspected of having educational disabilities.
Each case referred to the Bilingual Assessment Team is a unique case study that requires the experience of a multilingual and multicultural
staff.
The Bilingual Assessment Team members use a variety of
standardized instruments, informal measures, rating scales from different sources, consultation, clinical observation and behavior samples to collect
a broad spectrum of data to make a valid assessment of the factors influencing a child's learning.
Members of the Bilingual Assessment Team work
with school Individualized Education Program Teams to analyze and interpret data and test a full range of hypotheses about how social, cultural,
linguistic, curricular, instructional, and familiar factors combine to influence a student's academic success.
Collaboration among Bilingual Assessment
Team members and with the ESOL bilingual counselors, ESOL Parent Services, families, and local school and field office personnel is an integral
part of assessment, making it possible to incorporate all of the significant information needed to provide the most valid assessment possible in order
to guide the Individualized Education Program process in compliance with federal and state laws.
The Bilingual Assessment Team works in collaboration
with the ESOL bilingual counselors, ESOL Parent Services, families of students, schools, and central and field office personnel to develop a system
of supports and accommodations appropriate to the needs of each child to ensure academic success and optimal development.
The Bilingual Assessment
Team uses the linguistic and cultural knowledge, skills, and abilities of its members, aided by interpreters as needed, to make the complex Individualized
Education Program procedures comprehensible and accessible to parents from a broad range of cultural and educational backgrounds
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