5008V - Determining Cultural and Linguistic Sensitivity of Static Assessments: Options for Alternate Assessment

Many of the static assessments administered by speech-language pathologists have some degree of cultural assumptions and are often limited in representing diverse groups. Administration of these assessments can lead to misdiagnosis of culturally and linguistically diverse patients. However, utilizing non-linguistic processing tasks, language samples, and dynamic assessments have been shown to be effective assessment options for linguistically diverse patients. This session will provide participants with strategies to assess standardized assessments' cultural and linguistic sensitivity and provide guidance for the use of alternative assessment options.