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Bilingual Special Education for the 21st Century: A New Interface
A continuum that includes official medical diagnoses as well as social dynamics that render an individual disabled.
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Sólo Tiene Problemas de Aprendizaje: Lessons Learned From Perceptions of Disability and Diagnosis in the Dominican Republic
Lilly B. Padía (New York University, USA)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9043-0.ch011
Abstract
Students from the Dominican Republic are a growing demographic in United States schools, particularly in the Northeast. As the number of Dominican emergent bilingual students in special education grows, it is imperative that educators consider transnational issues of dis/ability and language learning. In this chapter, the author explores a set of interviews with teachers in Santiago, DR, and draws connections between the interview data and recommendations for US bilingual special educators. The chapter ends with suggestions for how educators can collaborate with families to ensure that the cultural understandings, questions, concerns, and wisdom of immigrant students and families are central to the bilingual special education process.
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Analyzing the Role of Implicit Bias From a DisCrit Perspective: The Practical Application of Recommendations for the Pyramid Model Framework
Dis/ability refers to a particular construction of difference (e.g., physical, cognitive), based on perceptions of differences from the norm.
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