Episode 11: What does a speech language pathologist have to say?

In this episode we interview Holly Hinshelwood, an English-Spanish bilingual speech language pathologist. She discusses some of the common misconceptions about bilingual speech development that we see among parents and sometimes uninformed health care providers. Furthermore, Holly explains how the field of speech language pathology is rapidly evolving by offering testing in the patient's dominant language, which is often not the majority language. The episode closes with Holly's advice for parents on how to best advocate for a proper diagnoses for their bilingual children.