Funded by the Office of Multicultural Affairs
of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 

We invite you to visit our Web site, www.clinicaldecision.umn.edu  to explore a new, interactive resource for speech language pathologists who serve linguistically diverse school aged learners.  The project goal is to deliver free, on-demand professional information for SLPs during the 2006-07 school year, including:

• a self-study curriculum of information essential to clinical assessments and intervention with linguistically diverse learners
• links to other related resources
• “Ask a Colleague” link to a mentored web –based threaded discussion forum (launch date: October 23, 2006)
• four online lectures in advanced topics (e.g., hearing loss, cleft palate, autism, fluency), as they relate to linguistically diverse learners (in development)

We hope you will visit our site and share this resource with your colleagues.  If you have current ASHA CCCs and a minimum of three years of experience working with linguistically diverse populations, we invite you to consider serving as a volunteer Guest mentor for our “Ask a Colleague” discussion forum (see attached invitation for details).  We welcome your comments and suggestions; please email us at cdmldl@umn.edu.

Thank you. 

Kathryn Kohnert and Leslie Glaze
Project Co-Investigators