Dr. Julie Washington, PhD TSS/ReadSource Lecture; Teaching African American Children to Read: The Impact of Language Variation

On January 3, 2023, The Schenck School and ReadSource co-hosted an informative presentation with noted Speech-Language Pathologist and Fellow of the American Speech Language Hearing Association: Dr. Julie Washington, Ph.D. In this presentation, Teaching African American Children to Read: The Impact of Language Variation, Dr. Washington shares her work understanding the role of cultural dialect in the assessment and identification of reading disabilities in school-aged African American Children.