Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Students : Strategies for Teaching and Assessment

Multilingual Exceptional Children: A Practical Guide for Teaching and Assessing Bilingual Special Education Students critically examines current assessment practices used with multilingual exceptional students and address alternative assessment practices that can be used to avoid both over and under representation. It addresses effective teaching strategies to meet the needs of students who are labeled as both English language learners and in need of special education; teacher cooperation and planning to best meet the needs of these students; and the multicultural movement and how multicultural pedagogical practices can benefit culturally and linguistically diverse students. This textbook directly involves practicing teachers in the research process through observations, interviews, case study stories, and video clips of teachers 'œin action.'� Likewise, this book includes the work of distinguished authors//researchers in the ELL and SPED fields to provide research perspectives at the end of each chapter.