Determining Difference from Disability

<p>This essential book offers clear guidelines for determining if the Culturally Linguistically Diverse (CLD) students / English Language Learners (ELL) in your general education classroom are experiencing typical language differences learning disabilities or both. By combining helpful case-studies with insightful research the authors provide a framework for differentiating instruction that uses culturally appropriate interventions to build upon student strengths while creating a foundation for further learning and achievement. You will discover how to: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Connect your own and your students’ cultural assets to classroom content; </li> <p> </p> <li>Review language acquisition stages and design corresponding instruction; </li> <p> </p> <li>Collaborate with peers and discuss the realities of reaching out for support and problem solving; </li> <p> </p> <li>Choose effective and appropriate instructional strategies based on documentation of data through progress monitoring;</li> <p> </p> <li>Move from a traditional behavioristic perspective to a more culturally responsive perspective; </li> <p> </p> <li>Identify patterns in formal assessments and informal instruction in order to distinguish between language differences and learning disabilities. </li> </ul><p>In addition the book includes a number of activities and graphs that can be implemented immediately in any classroom. Many of these materials can be downloaded for free from the book’s product page: www.routledge.com/9781138577756.</p>