Patrick Black: Have recently had 2 students to evaluated in multiple languages, both had significant cognitive delays, had to have outside evaluators come in and test them, in one we had a very difficult time understanding whether the lack of English instruction was a cause of his issues.

Deb Truskey: We have a listing of bilingual psychs and SLPs that we have used to help assess students in L1 while we do the testing in English (if appropriate) for special ed services.  Our ELL department uses testing of their own to qualify students for ELL.

Our special guest - Larry Ferlazzo:

Your host for tonight....Anne Truger: My district is entirely special education, our students take the access test to determine eligibility for our Transitional Program of Instruction. TPI teachers provide direct service to students with disabilities who are also English Language Learners.

• The Best Websites for English Language Learner Students in 2011

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• Best sites for beginning Readers
• Best sites to read and write “Choose Your Own Adventure” stories
• Create Your own Choose Your Own Adventure on Youtube
• Best math sites the students can use independently & teachers can check on progress

• Twitter chats
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• #slpchat - on hold until Jan.

• Recent & Upcoming Conferences
• ICE - February 28-March 2, Pheasant Run in St. Charles, IL
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• Offers/giveaways
• What's your #eduwin?
• Check out this great hashtag, focusing on the positives of education!
• Anne: working as a mentor to a student with Autism so they can participate in a “reg” tech class
• Patrick:  had a student successfully play a game with a gen ed peer on the iPad
• Deb: My students with language problems found success with visuals created on Qwiki to help him through a tricky science lesson.
• Edublogawards.com
• both Larry Ferlazzo & the EdReach network are nominated