The authors explored the interface between bilingualism and the education of students with
intellectual disability (ID) through a review of the E nglish language literature. Little …

Linguistic and cognitive assessment of children whose home language is not English
involves a number of complex issues. These include criteria for labeling minority children …

This review of special education and language-in-education policies at six sites in four
countries (Canada, United States, United Kingdom, and Netherlands) aimed to determine …

In 1968, Lloyd Dunn wrote a classic article on the over-representation of “socioculturally
deprived” children in special education programs. He attributed disproportionality to several …

Increasingly, schools are educating bilingual students, including those with diagnosed
disabilities. In school year 2008–2009, 11% of students from kindergarten through twelfth …

This study aimed to gather information from school-and clinic-based professionals about
their practices and opinions pertaining to the provision of bilingual supports to students with …

This paper focuses on a group of bilingual children within a large cohort of children with
specific language impairment (SLI) attending language units attached to mainstream …

Federal legislation demands that bilingual children be assessed in their primary language or
mode of communication. This means that bilingual children with possible handicapping …

The purpose of this article is to describe the results of a thematic analysis of 79 semi-
structured interviews collected at six research sites in four countries in relation to the …

Emergent Bilinguals (EB), particularly those of Latino descent, who have a moderate
intellectual disability (ID) are arguably one of the most underserved and under researched …