Language, culture and education : challenges of diversity in the United States

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Crowley, Catherine J. (Editor), Ijalba, Elizabeth (Editor), Velasco, Patricia (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Political, social and educational challenges in the struggle to develop bilingual education as a pedagogical model in the United States
  • 2. Distinguishing a true disability from "something else": Part I. Current challenges to providing valid, reliable, and culturally and linguistically appropriate disability evaluations
  • 3. Distinguishing a true disability from "something else": Part II. Toward a model of culturally and linguistically appropriate speech-language disability evaluations
  • 4. Raising children bilingually: what parents and educators should know about bilingualism in children
  • 5. Language acquisition in emergent bilingual triplets
  • 6. Chinese parents and raising their children bilingual: Fujianese immigrants
  • 7. Bilingualism in Korean-American children and maternal perceptions on education
  • 8. Transgenerational bilingual reading practices: a case study of an undocumented Mixteco family
  • 9. Parent education with Latino families of children with language impairment
  • 10. Perceptions on autism in Hispanic immigrant mothers of preschool children with autism spectrum disorders
  • 11. How early childhood interventions endanger the home language and home-culture: a call to value the role of families
  • 12. A critical review of cultural and linguistic guidelines in serving Arab-Americans
  • 13. Building home-school connections within a multicultural education framework: challenges and opportunities before and after President Trump's election
  • 14. Health and alternatives to healthcare for Mexican immigrants in New York