Vie Miller TS#9

Mingu and I met outside Strozier Library on Saturday afternoon. After sitting down at a table near the front desk, I began my needs assessment. I had worked on it for most of the morning, and I thought that--given my extensive consultation of the CIES chart--that I had done a pretty thorough job. I don’t know if I did or not, but I didn’t leave feeling like I had a really good grasp of Mingu’s speaking, listening, reading, and writing ability. That is mostly because Mingu has not (or does not) do much writing speaking, listening, or reading in English. In and of itself, that is totally fine, and I did get some very useful information from him on his background, interests, resources, etc. But if I had to the need’s assessment over again, I would prepare short activities of some kind that would help me get a better, more concretes sense of what a potential client is able to do.