When you think about a evaluating bilingual children you have to remember that your job is 80% the same and you already know how to do most of it. Looking at the image, we see that a bilingual eval is exactly like a monolingual eval, with 4 more components. Even if you are monolingual, you can carry on in a normal manner.
IDEA and ASHA both support evaluating bilingual children in a CUMULATIVE manor. IDEA says…
I still get referrals for bilingual children whose placement (or lack of placement) in sped for speech-language services is due to incomplete evaluations. “The message is clear. Speech and language testing needs to be cumulative (all languages) and not comparative (one language against the other).”
Looking at the image, we see that a bilingual eval is exactly like a monolingual eval, with 4 more components. Even if you are monolingual, you can carry on in a normal manner.