Special Education Considerations for Multilingual Learners

Delivering a Continuum of Services, Third Edition

Authors: Else Hamayan, Ph.D., Barbara Marler, Cristina Sánchez-López, Artiles Alfredo, Jack Damico

Higher Education

Multilingual learners in Grades K–12 are often overidentified or underidentified for special education. The third edition of this groundbreaking text offers a better way to meet the needs of multilingual learners: by creating a culturally and linguistically responsive multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) and implementing a continuum of services that meets the needs of the whole child.

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Product Details

| STOCK NUMBER | ISBN | | 56283 | 978-1-68125-628-3 | | COPYRIGHT | PAGES | | 2023 | 306 | | AVAILABILITY | | | Available Stock | |

Shifting away from traditional ways that schools address the needs of students who experience challenges, the new edition of this text takes a strengths-based approach to supporting multilingual students and focuses on the complex issues that affect a multilingual learner's development. Chapters have been fully updated to reflect the latest best practices and reorganized to better align with MTSS. Educators and other school-based professionals will be fully prepared to:

• Form collaborative MTSS teams that blend the diverse expertise of staff members
• Evaluate and enhance the learning environment for multilingual learners
• Gather extensive data about six critical factors in students’ home and school life, from previous schooling experiences to cross-cultural factors
• Authentically assess the strengths of multilingual learners
• Create a continuum of services that addresses the individual needs of each student
• Plan effective instruction and intervention using a multilingual lens
• Monitor the effectiveness of support strategies and programming for multilingual learners

PRACTICAL FEATURES:

• MTSS team activities to support professional learning
• Templates, a rating scale, and other reproducible tools
• Real-world examples from the field
• Discussion questions to help teams apply the concepts to their own student population

Authors: Else Hamayan Ph.D., Barbara Marler, Cristina Sánchez-López Foreword Author: Artiles Alfredo

• Includes team activities and discussion questions to facilitate book studies and professional development efforts
• Includes checklists, rating scales, and other downloadable tools to support implementation

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