A Preliminary Content Validity Analysis of the Receptive and Expressive Language Pre-Referral Protocol for Bilingual Learners (RELPP-BL)

The number of bilingual-bicultural students in the US continues to grow exponentially. With this growth, educators have an increased need for ensuring that all equal language learning opportunities. It is, therefore, crucial bilingual access valid tools can serve as guides determining if a speech and referral is needed. Receptive Expressive Language Pre-Referral Protocol Bilingual Learners [RELPP-BL] was developed data gathering tool assist decision-making process. purpose study explore content validity RELPP-BL. preliminary results demonstrate RELPP-BL viable, use pre-referral process; it not intended evaluation measure.