This essential book offers clear guidelines for determining if the Culturally Linguistically Diverse (CLD) students / English Language Learners (ELL) in your general education classroom are experiencing typical language differences, learning disabilities, or both. By combining helpful case-studies with insightful research, the authors provide a framework for differentiating instruction that uses culturally appropriate interventions to build upon student strengths while creating a foundation for further learning and achievement. You will discover how to:

Connect your own and your students’ cultural assets to classroom content;

Review language acquisition stages and design corresponding instruction;

Collaborate with peers and discuss the realities of reaching out for support and problem solving;

Choose effective and appropriate instructional strategies based on documentation of data through progress monitoring;

Move from a traditional behavioristic perspective to a more culturally responsive perspective;

Identify patterns in formal assessments and informal instruction in order to distinguish between language differences and learning disabilities.

In addition, the book includes a number of activities and graphs that can be implemented immediately in any classroom. Many of these materials can be downloaded for free from the book’s product page: www.routledge.com/9781138577756.

About the Author

Gerry McCain, PhD, is a professor of education at Southern Oregon University. He taught Bilingual Special Education in Las Cruces, New Mexico, prior to earning his doctorate in Bilingual Special Education.

Megan Farnsworth, PhD, is an associate professor of special education at Southern Oregon University.

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