Research Catalog

Title

Assessment and instruction of culturally and linguistically diverse students with or at-risk of learning problems : from research to practice / Virginia Gonzalez, Rita Brusca-Vega, Thomas Yawkey ; foreword by Leonard M. Baca.

Author

González, Virginia, 1962-

Publication

Boston : Allyn & Bacon, ©1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brusca-Vega, Rita.
• Yawkey, Thomas D.

Description

xviii, 254 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Children of minorities > Education > United States
• Learning disabled children > Education > United States
• Education, Bilingual > United States
• Educational anthropology > United States
• Children of minorities > Education
• Education, Bilingual
• Educational anthropology
• Learning disabled children > Education
• Ausländisches Kind
• Lernstörung
• Unterricht
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Understanding cultural and linguistic diversity and disability -- 2. Legal aspects of bilingual and special education -- 3. Separating mild disabilities from cultural and linguistic differences: assessment problems and approaches -- 4. Separating mild disabilities from cultural and linguistic differences: recommended alternative assessment practices -- 5. Separating mild disabilities from cultural and linguistic differences: the Qualitative Use of English and Spanish Tasks (QUEST) -- 6. How to link assessment with instruction for CLD students -- 7. How to Instruct CLD students -- 8. Working with CLD families -- 9. Organizing and delivering supportive services to CLD students -- 10. A dialogue on futuristic views in bilingual special education.

ISBN

• 0205156290
• 9780205156290

LCCN

96017473

OCLC

• ocm34546550
• 34546550
• SCSB-2130529

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library