The Error Message: Stakeholders’ Experiences Supporting Neurodiverse Children in Dual Language Bilingual Education

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Abstract

In this analysis, we delve into the experiences of stakeholders as they support – Neurodiverse and Emergent Bilinguals (EB) – and navigate the intricacies of the education system.
Fueling this exploration is a university-school partnership, where stakeholders shed light on their experiences in the Dual Language Bilingual Education (DLBE) program. Without being prompted, parents, teachers, and administrators in interviews discussed issues serving and/or raising neurodiverse children in DLBE, demanding in-depth examination. We aim to analyze their experiences. We unravel how different stakeholders describe grappling with the DLBE program and the crucial moments of dissonance, or how a particular stakeholder embraces bilingualism in neurodiverse students when the system does not.

Authors

• Briseida E. Tijerina M. Cardoza, University of Texas - San Antonio

• Kathryn I. Henderson, University of Texas - San Antonio

• Zhongfeng Tian, Rutgers University - Newark

• Carly Leech, The University of Texas at San Antonio

• Monica Ramos