Teresa Gillespie

2Rev Coach

Teresa Gillespie is a native of Denver, Colorado. She works as a Bilingual Spanish/English-speaking Speech-Language Pathologist with a bilingual centralized and multidisciplinary special education assessment team that is part of a local public school district. Teresa has a Master of Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, non-medical Degree program in Hearing and Speech Sciences, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology and Spanish from the University of Denver. She earned an Advanced Certificate in Bilingual Speech-Language Pathology from Teachers College, Columbia University. As a second-language learner in the Spanish language at an undergraduate college level in core curriculum classes, Teresa understands many of the frustrations, challenges, and rewards that Multilingual Learner (MLL) students experience learning academic concepts in a new language while also increasing proficiency in the new language. As an experienced evaluator, she understands the limitations of standardized and norm-referenced assessments, and the culturally and linguistically diverse variables that can affect the interpretation of assessment results and student assessment performance. Teresa’s passions are working with MLL students and their families, assessment, research, continuing education, and collecting evidence from a variety of sources to help distinguish a language difference from a language disorder.