Abstract: | Describes a university 66-credit professional diploma sequence that includes 1 yr of internship experience for the training of school psychologists to work with bilingual/bicultural populations. Competence for working with these populations involves 3 general areas: language, cross-cultural expertise, and assessment. An integrated curriculum and faculty offers linguistics, cultural-urban studies, and bilingual education courses in addition to the core courses in professional school psychology. Bilingual students and faculty have been recruited. (23 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |