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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED302990 AUTHOR: Gelb, Steven
TITLE: A Guide to Working with Minority Language Students
in
Special Education.
YEAR PUBLISHED: (1982)
NOTE: 39 p.
ABSTRACT: This monograph provides special educators with
guidelines to help them succeed in their work with minority
language students. It emphasizes the necessity for bringing
the social context into educational planning, in its
discussion of such topics as the history of limited English
proficient (LEP) children in special education, classroom
needs of LEP handicapped children, methods of working with
minority language parents, and issues in the assessment of
LEP children. An introductory chapter discusses the
diversity among LEP children and the achievement of LEP
children in schools. An historical perspective on minority
language students and special education focuses on the
growth of ungraded classes for "backward" children between
1900 and 1920, the rise of intelligence tests and their use
on LEP children, overrepresentation of minority children in
special education, and current efforts toward change.
Classroom needs call for consideration of assimilationism
versus pluralism, teacher attitudes, cross-cultural
communication, motivation, multicultural curriculum, and
teaching English as a second language. Assessment of
minority language students requires standardized testing as
well as nonstandardized measures of language proficiency in
both the child's first and second languages, measures of
adaptive behavior, and naturalistic observations of the
child in various settings. (JDD)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Elementary-Secondary-Education; English
Second-Language; Intelligence-Tests; Minority-Groups;
Multicultural-Education; Parent-Participation; Special
Education; Student-Evaluation
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Bilingual-Education; *Disabilities-;
*Educational-History; *Handicap-Identification; *Limited
English-Speaking; *Student-Needs
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