Bilingual Education and Students with Dis/Abilities and Exceptionalities

Abstract

Schools create educational programs to serve students whose unique needs cannot be met in the mainstream classroom. This chapter talks about special education and gifted education for English learners (ELs) in the United States. ELs with dis/abilities face some of the same barriers to appropriate services as all ELs. Services for ELs with special and gifted educational needs mirror one another in troubling ways. ELs are disproportionately overrepresented in special education programs in the areas of speech and language disorders and learning dis/abilities, and disproportionately underrepresented in other disability categories. The result is that many ELs with dis/abilities and exceptionalities remain under-or over-identified and improperly served. In addition to legislation, litigation has also played a significant role in addressing the educational rights of ELs. Internationally, bilingual and multilingual students with exceptionalities face similar challenges to appropriate education when schools fail to consider their cultural, linguistic, and academic needs.

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