Bilingual Therapy
With eLuma, linguistic barriers become a thing of the past.
29,000+
Students Served
400,000+
Hours of Therapy
92%
Customer Satisfaction Rate
Bilingual Therapy & eLuma
eLuma offers unparalleled online speech therapy solutions for Bilingual Therapy. We know that the key to helping these students is to first see and then unlock their incredible potential, but it all starts with their ability to communicate. Our speech-language pathologists (SLPs) can provide all of the same required services live and online, through a fully-secure, HIPAA-compliant platform, as they can in person — and can do so with a high degree of effectiveness, efficiency and flexibility. We love working with these kids and find great satisfaction in seeing them progress and succeed.
Play Video
What is Bilingual Therapy?
Bilingual therapy allows students to access therapy services with native language support. Ideally, a bilingual Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) will provide the services, but a monolingual SLP can provide bilingual services with the appropriate use of an interpreter. When working with an interpreter, the SLP retains responsibility for selecting culturally-appropriate materials, planning therapy sessions, and leading the sessions.
When providing bilingual therapy, SLPs need to consider the child’s language differences and disorders. This requires that the SLP be proficient in the natural process of second language acquisition and provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
The primary goals of speech-language therapy for bilingual individuals are:
Accurately distinguishing between presentations of communication disorders and communication differences
Using interventions that provide the optimal environment for enhancing speech/language skills and minimizing the functional impact of communication disorders (Centeno & Anslado, 2013, via https://www.asha.org/PRPSpecificTopic.aspx?folderid=8589935225§ion=Key_Issues)
The performance of bilingual students in speech-language therapy must be considered within a bilingual perspective. Assessment must take both languages into consideration, and progress in intervention needs to consider the amount of exposure and learning opportunities provided to the child in each language.
Sources:
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Bilingual Service Delivery. Available at https://www.asha.org/PRPSpecificTopic.aspx?folderid=8589935225§ion=Key_Issues.
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Collaborating with Interpreters. Available at https://www.asha.org/Practice-Portal/Professional-Issues/Collaborating-With-Interpreters/.
- ASHA Leader. Language Intervention from a Bilingual Mindset. Available at https://leader.pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.1044/leader.FTR1.11102006.6.
Want to Learn More?
Free Consultation
If you’re like a lot of folks, you might still be a bit unfamiliar with online school psychology / mental health services (aka teletherapy, telepractice,telemental health, telehealth, etc.) and all of its many benefits. We invite you to check out our Why Online Therapy page to learn more about how effective, affordable and popular it really is.
If you want to learn more about how eLuma can specifically help YOUR program, we provide a free needs analysis to help you identify how you can improve your ability to deliver a broader range of high-quality online therapy services while simultaneously reducing your costs by several thousand (or more).
Recent Blog Posts
best name for boy 3110
Muhammad is Englands most popular boys baby name for first time Baby names If approved, you’ll be automatically refunded on your original payment method. Please
