Bilinguistics Speech and Language Services

Our staff is dedicated to enhancing speech and language services for children and enabling them to achieve their highest communicative and academic potential. In addition, we support monolingual and bilingual speech-language professionals working with bilingual individuals and English language learners through our workshop series and our Online ASHA CEU courses.

The number of different languages we encounter in our work as speech-language pathologists seems to grow every year. Wit...
08/07/2025

The number of different languages we encounter in our work as speech-language pathologists seems to grow every year. With the limited time we have in our jobs, how can we possibly conduct effective evaluations in so many languages?

The answer is to lean into new tools that are being created that help us maintain our accuracy and be efficient. Here are three videos about a talk I put together for a conference on authentic assessment.

https://bit.ly/4eliuG6

🎉 Start the school year with confidence—and the right tools to evaluate every student who walks through your door.This y...
08/04/2025

🎉 Start the school year with confidence—and the right tools to evaluate every student who walks through your door.

This year’s SLP Back-to-School Conference is all about authentic assessment—how to evaluate students when standardized tools fall short.

🧠 Cluttering.
🗣️ Bilingual language brokers.
🌍 Students who speak languages with no tests available.

You’ll learn real strategies from 3 experts who’ve been there—and see exactly how to make diagnostic decisions you can trust.

📆 August 12th – 14th, 2025
⏰ 3:00–4:30 PST • 4:00–5:30 MST • 5:00–6:30 CST • 6:00–7:30 EST
🔗 Watch the short video + register now
https://bit.ly/3TbtZWP

This is how you start the year strong.
—The Bilinguistics Team

Traditional standardized tests often overlook the complex and dynamic language skills of bilingual children—particularly...
07/31/2025

Traditional standardized tests often overlook the complex and dynamic language skills of bilingual children—particularly those who operate within diverse cultural and linguistic settings.

Grounded in current research, the Functional Language Proficiency (FLiP) framework offers a new perspective, moving away from deficit-oriented models and redefining how bilingual learners are assessed in both clinical and school environments.

Watch these quick highlights from our interview with Dr. Genesis Arizmendi from the University of Arizona.

https://bit.ly/4lnItPq

Cluttering is a lesser-known fluency disorder that’s often misinterpreted and can be challenging to identify. Fortunatel...
07/24/2025

Cluttering is a lesser-known fluency disorder that’s often misinterpreted and can be challenging to identify. Fortunately, recent insights are making it easier to recognize and distinguish cluttering from other communication disorders. By applying a few key strategies and evidence-based guidelines, professionals can more accurately assess and differentiate cluttering symptoms.

We invited fluency specialist Dr. Kathleen Scaler Scott to talk to us about cluttering and caught the highlights in these 4 short videos.

https://bit.ly/4l1fbX7

Planning is underway for the SLP Study Abroad Trip 2026! It’s warm. It’s beautiful. And it’s on nearly everyone’s bucket...
07/21/2025

Planning is underway for the SLP Study Abroad Trip 2026! It’s warm. It’s beautiful. And it’s on nearly everyone’s bucket list.

Any guesses?

Be the first to find out when we announce that registration is open. This will be our 5th trip and all previous registrations were closed within a few weeks.

See you there!
https://bit.ly/3JyR1lZ

The only way to make an SLP trip like this better is to ensure that it doesn’t end! We said goodbye to our new friends a...
07/19/2025

The only way to make an SLP trip like this better is to ensure that it doesn’t end! We said goodbye to our new friends as families set out on road trips in Great Britain, Ireland, or flew to Europe. The rest of us went home ☹.

Alas, good thing that planning is under way for next year already. It will be TOTALLY different but just as exciting (if not more).

https://bit.ly/3JyR1lZ

In our final day of content, the cultural and linguistic diversity picture was made complete as we tackled intervention....
07/18/2025

In our final day of content, the cultural and linguistic diversity picture was made complete as we tackled intervention. We shared intervention strategies that not only work with children from all backgrounds but accelerate growth in the classroom.

Alas, all good things must come to an end! We celebrated at the Marina Market with a good dose of Irish food, libations, music, and culture.

Next year’s trip:
https://bit.ly/3JyR1lZ

50% of the work to maintain appropriate caseload sizes relates to getting the right students on our caseload and dismiss...
07/17/2025

50% of the work to maintain appropriate caseload sizes relates to getting the right students on our caseload and dismissing quickly and effectively. We spent the morning introducing modern methods and tools that enable massive caseload reductions.

So much to see and do that we couldn’t fit it all into our itinerary. We added a free afternoon because Cork is such a unique city, and the surrounding area is beautiful.

SLPs walked through the old town, bought farm-fresh foods at the English Market and climbed the steps at St. Anne’s to ring the bells. Others took a train ride to the beautiful shops and port of Kinsale, or visited Blarney Castle and kissed the Blarney Stone.

Be the first to find out about next year’s trip:
https://bit.ly/3JyR1lZ

Language assessment and intervention is all about mastering non-standardized assessment strategies to confidently diagno...
07/16/2025

Language assessment and intervention is all about mastering non-standardized assessment strategies to confidently diagnose, gauge progress and identify perfect targets and goals. We covered this in-depth for an entire morning before heading “out to sea!”

There is no better way to learn about the culture and history of Ireland than to float out of one of the natural calm, safe harbors that have made it famous for centuries. We boarded a boat near the hotel as a local guide took us out towards the Celtic Sea and back.

Next year’s trip location will be announced soon. Be the first to find out here:
https://bit.ly/3JyR1lZ

We began the conference by diving into articulation, phonology, and speech sound disorders so that ANY speech pathologis...
07/15/2025

We began the conference by diving into articulation, phonology, and speech sound disorders so that ANY speech pathologist can improve the sounds of ANY child, regardless of the languages they speak.

Then, we jumped on a train and headed to the coastal town of Cobh to learn about one of Europe’s largest emigration points. It also happens to be the last port of call for the Titanic! It is a beautifully colorful town at the base of a hill with an immense gothic cathedral.

Come on next year’s trip: https://bit.ly/3JyR1lZ

Ireland is so beautiful! The people, food, towns, and countryside are amazing. So nice to meet everyone in person, eat d...
07/14/2025

Ireland is so beautiful! The people, food, towns, and countryside are amazing.

So nice to meet everyone in person, eat dinner and talk about the week. Dinner was capped off with a local lecturer on Ireland and Irish culture.

What better place to learn about the diverse children we work with than the country that had the greatest number of immigrants to the United States.

Next year’s trip: https://bit.ly/3JyR1lZ

Let the 2025 SLP Study Abroad Trip Begin!So happy to have arrived in Ireland. Ellen and I got to the hotel and conferenc...
07/12/2025

Let the 2025 SLP Study Abroad Trip Begin!

So happy to have arrived in Ireland. Ellen and I got to the hotel and conference room midday and are going through the slides and events for a week of presentations. This redefines “working remotely.”

Looking collectively at 20 hours of content is pretty cool. We will weave between therapy and evaluations, language and speech, all with a focus on doing it really well with diverse children.

Find out about next year’s trip:
https://bit.ly/3JyR1lZ

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Knowing that your child or loved one is not communicating like others their same age can be scary. Thankfully, our Austin speech-language pathologists can help your child progress. Our Austin speech therapy clinic specializes in:Articulation/phonology, language delay, language disorders, auditory processing, stuttering/fluency, resonance/voice disorders, swallowing/feeding, and social/pragmatic language.We also have expertise with special populations such as: autism, Down syndrome, cleft lip/palate, apraxia, learning disability, intellectual disability, selective mutism, hearing impairment, and multiple disabilitiesOur speech therapy clinic in Austin is just our home base. We are international presenters, authors of books and resources for speech language pathologists, and certified intstructors for professionals and university students. So rest assured that if you are in our community and need communication therapy or an evaluation, you are the very best of hands.Our success is in part based on our training and treatment techniques: Social ThinkingÂŽ; Routines-Based Early Intervention (sign language/baby signs/language enrichment); Literacy-Based Intervention; Alternative and Augmentative Communication/AAC; bilingual services; discrete trial teaching; intensive therapy; maximal opposition; generalization; multi-sensory cues; use of movement and music; oral motor skills. Even if you just have questions or concerns,we would love to be part of your journey and help you in any way we can.