73.060-1 - Bilingual Students with Special Needs

• In Event: 73.060 - Roundtable Session 31

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

General beliefs about students who live at the intersection of multilingualism and disability are laden with deficit-based notions of students’ languages and abilities (Harry & Klingner, 2006). Additionally, multilingual students are disproportionately represented in special education programs (Artiles, Kozleski, Trent, Osher, & Ortiz, 2010), an issue caused by a variety of factors including school structures, language proficiency, and racial and socioeconomic segregation. Essentially, there are a great deal of equity-based issues related to the education of multilingual students with disabilities that we need to address through research, practice and policy. This symposium is an effort to bring together research focused on equity-based approaches striving to improve the education for multilingual students with disabilities.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Bilingual Education Research

Chair

• Renee Greenfield, University of Hartford

Papers

• Increasing Equity for Multilingual Students With Disabilities Through Critical Sociocultural Pedagogical Practices - Renee Greenfield, University of Hartford; Kara Mitchell Viesca, University of Colorado - Denver; Anne Oppenheim Davidson, University of Colorado

• Kanguka (Wake Up): Codeveloping Educational Supports for Children With Refugee Status - Jessica Nina Lester, Indiana University; Allison Daniel Anders, University of South Carolina

• Expanding What Counts as Science With Bilingual Children Perceived as Having Disabilities - Patricia Martínez-Álvarez, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Culturally Responsive Schema-Based Instruction: Improving Word-Problem Solving for English Language Learners With Mathematics Difficulties - Melissa Kypraios Driver, University of Virginia