Tag Archive: speech 
A Report to the Commission of 125 and The University of Texas at Austin Community
William Powers Jr. President The University of Texas at Austin I have never been prouder to be a Longhorn, with thousands of students, faculty, alumni, and friends around the world who continue their strong support for the University they love and cherish. I can’t thank each of you individually, but I do need to recognize… » Continue Reading
Researchers develop tool to identify bilingual children with true language disorders
According to the 2000 census, nearly one-third of Texans ages 5 years and older speak Spanish at home. Add the under-5 population and the percentage is even higher. Due to continued immigration and globalism, the bilingual population will continue to grow in Texas. Five to 8 percent of preschoolers experience a speech-language disorder, one of… » Continue Reading
Meeting Workforce Demands
Back to Difference or Disorder? feature story According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 55 percent of school-based speech-language pathologists have English Language Learning, or bilingual, children on their caseload. Only 7.9 percent of those students, however, receive the bilingual speech-language pathology treatment they need, because fewer than 2 percent of speech-language pathologists identify themselves as… » Continue Reading
