Ep.4 |The Intersection of Dialect and Dyslexia with Dr. Julie Washington

Join Winifred A. Winston and LeDerick Horne with Dr. Julie Washington as they talk about why Black parents should feel empowered to advocate and access resources for their children. Dr. Washington share’s insights into assessments, cultural dialects, and why it’s important to have a network of providers of Color, such as Black psychologist, neuropsychologist and school counselors.

Join Winifred A. Winston and LeDerick Horne with Dr. Julie Washington as they talk about why Black parents should feel empowered to advocate and access resources for their children. Dr. Washington share’s insights into assessments, cultural dialects, and why it’s important to have a network of providers of Color, such as Black psychologist, neuropsychologist and school counselors. 

Here’s a breakdown of what to expect in this episode:Challenges parents face when they too, have a learning disability, and still struggle with reading and writing. Why parents should never attend an IEP meeting alone.In higher education young Black students must start advocating for themselves to access accommodations they need and are entitled to.Educating educators in the form of a research article, “Teaching Reading to  African American Children”, American Educator by Dr. Julie Washington and Mark S. Seidenberg https://www.aft.org/ae/summer2021/washington_seidenberg And so much more!~About Dr. Julie Washington:Dr. Washington is a Professor in the School of Education at the University of California – Irvine (UCI). She is a Speech-Language Pathologist and is a Fellow of the American Speech Language Hearing Association. Dr. Washington directs the Learning Disabilities Research Innovation Hub funded by the National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development. She is also director of the Dialect, Poverty and Academic Success Lab at UCI. Currently, Dr. Washington’s research is focused on the intersection of literacy, language variation, and poverty. In particular, her work focuses on understanding the role of cultural dialect in assessment, identification of reading disabilities in school-aged African American children and on disentangling the relationship between language production and comprehension on development of reading and early language skills for children growing up in poverty.~You can find Dr. Julie Washington on . . .Website: http://education.uci.edu/washington_bio.htmlLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-washington-4616a012/Twitter: https://twitter.com/jwashingtonPhD~Connect with Winifred!Website: https://www.soallcanread.org/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soallcanreadInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackanddyslexic/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/soallcanread/Twitter: https://twitter.com/soallcanread
Connect with LeDerick! Website: https://lederick.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lederickh/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lederickhorne/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lederickhorne Twitter: https://twitter.com/lederick?lang=en