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Options for ELL Students who Qualify for Special Education:
- There is a range of options for ELL students who..
- Available options depend greatly upon..
- You have to find out..
- There is a range of options for ELL students who qualify for special education after RtI has been found to be insufficient to meet their specific learning needs.
- Available options depend greatly upon the particular school district and what state it is in
- You have to find out what your particular school district offers
Options for ELL Students who Qualify for Special Education:
-Option 1:
1.Consultative, collaborative service provision in which ELL students remains in the general education classroom and the teacher receives assistance from special education personnel, ESL teachers, and/or bilingual staff members
Options for ELL Students who Qualify for Special Education:
-Option 2:
- Pull-out services in English (or, ideally, bilingual tx) conducted 1-2x a week in specialist’s room
- Usually group, but could be indiv.
Options for ELL Students who Qualify for Special Education:
-Option 3:
-3. Placement in regular bilingual education or Sheltered English classroom with support from special education
Options for ELL Students who Qualify for Special Education:
-Option 4:
- Monolingual English special education classroom (hopefully with primary language support using a bilingual teacher, tutor, etc.)
Options for ELL Students who Qualify for Special Education:
-Option 5:
- Bilingual special education classroom
Sparks…
- In the Sheltered English stand alone…
- Students of all lang backgrounds..
- In the Sheltered English stand-alone classroom, the teacher often focuses several hours of the day on direct lang instruction in addition to academic content
- Students of all lang backgrounds grouped by English proficiency levels so lessons can be tailored
It is important to think..
flexibly
LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT IN ELL STUDENTS: FOUNDATIONS: A. Legal Considerations -IDEA: Students who speak.. -Must show delays in.. -ELL student-
- IDEA: students who speak a second language must be assessed in both the primary (first) language (L1) and English
- Must show delays in BOTH the primary language and English in order to be diagnosed as having a language impairment (LI)
- ELL student– true LI if difficulties learning in BOTH languages
A. Legal considerations cont..
- The student with age-appropriate..
- We must make teachers..
- The student with age-appropriate L1 skills and low scores in English is NOT LI and is not a candidate for special education**
- We must make teachers and administrators aware of the difference between a student with typical underlying language learning ability who needs more time and exposure to English (non special education) and the student who is truly LI (qualifies for special education).
There is increased focus on diverse students in our schools…
- No child left behind act-strong..
- Replaced by..
- No Child Left Behind Act (2001)–strong emphasis on achievement for low-income, diverse, ELL students
- Replaced by Every Student Succeeds Act
Every Student Succeeds Act (signed by Obama on 12/10/15)
- Requires annual..
- Lets states set..
- Reduces federal governments..
- Requires annual math and reading testing grades 3-8 and once in high school
- Lets states set own education goals
- Reduces federal government’s role in dictating sanctions for low-performing schools
In 2017:
-The current Administration in Washington D.C. may be..
-The current Administration in Washington D.C. may be looking to abolish this Act, thus greatly reducing available services for public school students with special needs.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 2004):
- LEAs are allowed to..
- There is a greater emphasis on..
- Schools may now use more..
- LEAs (local education agencies) are allowed to eliminate the IQ-achievement discrepancy gap that formerly was mandated in order to qualify students for many special education services
- There is a greater emphasis on pre-referral services
- Schools may now use more funds for early intervention
There is a special focus..
- On children in..
- There is also a special focus on..
- On children in K-3 who don’t technically qualify for special education but who need additional support —ELLs too
- There is also a special focus on children who are having difficulty developing their basic reading skills, especially in the early grades
The law also emphasizes..
-If a particular group of students is overrepresented in..
-If a particular group of students (e.g., ELL students) is overrepresented in special education, states will be required to provide coordinated, comprehensive, early intervention programs for these students
Knowing that the laws are strict about who receives services….
-We can look further at the definition of..
-We can look further at the definition of “language impairment” as a category for putting an ELL student on an IEP
ELLs with Language Impairment: Major Therapy Goals
- As stated, the ELL with an LI has..
- Difficulty learning..
- As stated, the ELL with an LI has difficulty learning any language
- Difficulty learning L1 and English
Recent research defines primary language impairment (PLI)—student has:
- Underlying..
- Cognitive processing difficulties in:
- Underlying language difficulties
- Cognitive processing difficulties in
1) working memory,
2) attention,
3) speed of processing
We need to do three things in intervention:
- Improve lang skills
- Work directly on improving cognitive processing skills
- Modify ch’s environment using the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
The Universal Design for Learning incorporates multiple means of:
- R
- E
- E
- Representation (visual, auditory, tactile, paper, digital)
- Expression (oral and written, web-based projects)
- Engagement (motivate students to sustain effort and maintain interest)
Our ultimate goals:
- Competent..
- Competent..
- Personal..
- Competent academic lang skills (meeting Common Core State Standards)
- Competent social skills
- Personal fulfillment and vocational success
Choosing the Language of Intervention
- When an ELL student is placed into therapy..
- There are several factors to be..
- When an ELL student is placed into therapy, a major consideration is the extent to which the student’s first language (L1) and English will be used in therapy.
- There are several factors to be considered when this decision is being made
There are several factors to be considered when this decision is being made
- First, what is the level of..
- Ideal:
- Especially beneficial to..
- First, what is the level of the student’s proficiency in L1 and English? **
- Ideal: support both L1 and English in tx
- Especially beneficial to introduce new concepts in L1 first and reinforce them in English
The overall purpose of intervention with bilingual students who have LIs is to..
effect positive changes in both English and L1.
According to Mendez et. al. 2015….
- Children who received..
- Presenting target..
- Ch who received vocab instruction in both Spanish and English substantially outperformed ch who were taught in English only
- Presenting target vocab words in Spanish 1st, English 2nd promoted greater learning
We must emphasize to all individuals involved with these students that:
- Having LI does not..
- Children with special needs..
- Having a LI does not impede the ch in being able to “handle” two langs
- Ch with special needs can and do become bilingual
Kay-Raining Bird et al. 2005:
- Children with Down syndrome growing up..
- They had a similar number of..
- Children with Down Syndrome growing up in a French-English bilingual environment were able to acquire two languages
- They had a similar number of vocabulary words compared to a monolingual English-speaking group of children with Down Syndrome
Seung, Siddiqui, & Elder, 2006:
- Research with a Korean child..
- It also enabled..
- Research with a Korean child with autism showed that learning Korean first had a positive impact on his rate of English acquisition
- It also enabled him to continue his progress in Korean
Reetzke, R., Zou, X., Sheng, L., & Katsos, N. (2015).
Communicative development in bilingually exposed Chinese children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
-Interviewed parents of..
-Interviewed parents of Chinese children with ASD
Reetzke et al. 2015 found:
- Being exposed to…
- Still had good..
- Being exposed to 2 langs did not adversely affect ch
- Still had good Chinese development
A second factor to be considered in deciding the language of intervention is:
- What language..
- If the students L1 is not reinforced or..
- In today’s world, more children are being..
- What language is used in the home?
- If the student’s L1 is not reinforced or developed in the school, the student may lose the ability to communicate effectively with family members.
- In today’s world, more children are being cared for by grandparents. If students can no longer effectively communicate with their grandparents (and other significant adults in their lives), valuable relationships are negatively impacted.
A third factor impacting our choice for the language of intervention is:
- What resources are available for..
- It is ideal to have a SLP who is..
- The SLP is often a..
- What resources are available for conducting intervention in L1 as well as English?
- It is ideal to have a speech-language pathologist (SLP) who is a fluent speaker of the student’s L1 to conduct intervention.
- However, the SLP is often a monolingual speaker of English. In this case, it is ideal of that SLP can work collaboratively with an interpreter or bilingual paraprofessional who speaks the child’s L1 fluently
-We may have to really work to find resources for..
-helping us support students’ first languages
Additive Approach:
- Professionals do not discard their..
- They add to and..
- The basic structure of the..
- Professionals do not discard their old curriculum
- Rather, they add to and expand the existing curriculum to take other cultures into account (in addition to the dominant culture)
- The basic structure of the curriculum is not altered
Use maps of the U.S. and the world. I ask my students..
-where their ancestors are from, and if they know this information, we find their countries of origin on a globe. This helps foster cultural and ethnic pride as well as geographic knowledge
Show interest in students’ home countries, languages, and cultures.
- If students have lived in another country..
- I also ask them to teach..
- If students have lived in another country prior to coming to the U.S., or if they immigrate back and forth between their country and the U.S., I ask them questions about their home countries.
- I also ask them to teach me some words in their languages. It is humbling for me, and students love being the “teacher!”
- Try to convey the belief that it is..
- Being bilingual and bicultural is..
- Try to convey the belief that it is “cool” to speak a different language and to have lived in another country.
- Being bilingual and bicultural is special, and I try to convey to students that as adults in the workforce, they will be especially desirable.
- At risk students need..
- These role models can show..
- At-risk students need caring role models
- These role models can show students why a higher education can benefit them
Encourage development and maintenance of the first or primary language
- Many ELL students profit from having..
- Encourage use of the primary..
- Represent various languages by having..
- Many ELL students profit from having a specially assigned peer buddy who speaks the same language they do.
- Encourage use of the primary language; don’t ever discourage students from speaking their primary language.
- Represent various languages by having signs in key areas. For example, one school I worked in had the word “welcome” in 20 different languages on signs in the front office.
Make sure the environment represents diversity
- Display objects and..
- Create classroom..
- Use intervention materials that..
- Display objects and pictures representing various cultures.
- Create classroom bulletin boards that show diversity.
- Use intervention materials that represent various cultural and linguistic groups.
Provide books written in..
different languages
We can also incorporate multiculturalism by…
Providing fairy tales from various cultural backgrounds
Other ways to incorporate multiculturalism:
- Developing..
- Teaching the..
- Developing thematic units —e.g. Black History Month, Cinco de Mayo, Chinese New Year, etc.
- Teaching the entire group or class words, phrases, songs in various langs
Use biographical sketches with culturally and linguistically diverse role models. For example, in my sons second grade class..
in my son’s second grade Houghton Mifflin reader, there was a story about Wilma Rudolph, an African American Olympian in the 1900s. There was also a story about a Hispanic female astronaut. It is ideal if we can use stories such as this as part of therapy and as part of the general education curriculum.
Both mainstream and culturally and linguistically diverse students benefit when…
Culturally and linguistically diverse materials and activities are an integral part of speech-language therapy activities and the curriculum of the general education classroom
HOLISTIC STRATEGIES APPROACH
-Ultimate goal:
Ultimate goal: vocational success
STRAEGIES FOR MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL AND LINGUISTIC ENVIRONMENT FOR ELL STUDENTS WITH LI:
- Limit..
- Do not..
- Make..
- Use..
- Slow..
- Do a..
- Emphasize..
- Give..
- Incorporate..
- Limit clutter and distractions in the environment
- Do not give important information when the room is noisy.
- Make good seating arrangements in classroom settings
- Use Preparatory Sets
- Slow down your rate of speech.
- Do a great deal of review—repeat information and rephrase it.
- Emphasize content words through increased volume and stress.
- Give extra processing time.
- Incorporate movement and movement breaks
- Limit clutter and distractions in the environment
- Classrooms today have..
-Classrooms today have multiple auditory and visual stimuli. The phone rings, people come in and out, and the walls and ceilings are often covered with art projects—very distracting
Use the Office
- Corner of..
- Headphones-
- Corner of room, nothing on wall – like a library carrel/cubicle
- Headphones – block out noise
- Do not give important information when the room is noisy.
- Students often have difficulty with..
- Even TD ELL students may have..
- Students often have difficulty with figure-ground ability, or the ability to “pick out” the professional’s voice from other auditory stimuli.
- Even typically-developing ELL students may have extra difficulty if there is a poor signal-to-noise ratio and the teacher is speaking rapidly using decontextualized language that is so typical of classrooms.
Listening conditions in the classroom need to be favorable.
- Processing info in L2..
- In some cases, teachers are using..
- Processing information in L2 under less-than-ideal conditions is a risk factor for ELLs with LI
- In some places, teachers are using FM units that make them 20-30 decibels louder; research shows that children perform better when the teacher’s voice is amplified. This is especially true of ELL students with LI.
- Make good seating arrangements in classroom settings
- Seat speakers of the..
- ELL students with LI need to..
- Seat speakers of the same language together. In this way, they can provide assistance to each other, using L1 for support in learning academic content.
- ELL students with LI need to sit close to the front of the classroom.
- Use Preparatory Sets
- Always begin an..
- Make sure the..
- For example:
- In this way, students know the..
- Esp. important for..
- Many low-
- Always begin an activity or therapy session with a preparatory set
- Make sure the students know what is ahead
- For example: “We will do the calendar, math, and then clean up and go to recess. So—calendar, math, and recess.”
- In this way, students know the “layout” and are prepared for what will follow.
- Esp. important for students not accustomed to structure
- Many low-SES students have little experience with structure – teach it explicitly
- Slow down your rate of speech.
- Students benefit if we..
- LI students-
- Students benefit if we pause frequently to give them processing time. Research shows that LI students process more slowly than typically-developing students.
- LI students—especially those who are ELLs—profit when professionals slow down and pause more often.
- Do a great deal of review—repeat information and rephrase it.
- It is estimated that the..
- ELL students with LI benefit from..
- Rephrasing is..
- There are 8 planets..
- It is estimated that the average, monolingual English-speaking adult forgets 95% of what he heard within 72 hours of hearing it.
- ELL students with LI benefit from hearing information repeated and reviewed often.
- Rephrasing is helpful. For example:
- “There are 8 planets in the solar system. The earth is one of the planets closest to the sun. – The earth, one of 8 planets in the solar system, is close to the sun.”
- Emphasize content words through increased volume and stress.
- Research has shown that LI students lack the ability to..
- Increasing the auditory..
- The ocean is a source..
- Research has shown that LI students lack the ability to identify the “big” words, or content words and separate them out from the smaller words (function words).
- Increasing the auditory salience of content words through increased volume and stress can support low-SES ELL students with LI. For example:
- “The ocean is a source of life for our planet. The ocean provides food, water, and other things that are important.”
- Give extra processing time
- Give..
- Better performance..
- Give 4-5 seconds after asking a question
- Better performance if “wait time” to process info
- Incorporate movement and movement breaks
- Fidget..
- Brief 20 sec..
- Fidget toys helpful – have basket of them
- Brief 20 second brain gym exercises such as cross-crawl, arm wave to “wake up the brain” and cross midline
Movement Break!
-Cross crawls from Brain Gym-
Cross crawls from Brain Gym—designed to increase communication between the right and left hemisphere
III. PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR A VARIETY OF SETTINGS
-These can be used in..
These can be used in therapy rooms (e.g., pull-out), learning centers, and general education classrooms
Have student journal
- About..
- or..
- About their experiences
- Or pre-planned subjects
Have the students:
- Engage in..
- Costumes and..
- So do..
- Engage in drama and role-playing activities in order to encourage expressive language and social interaction skills.
- Costumes and puppets help if they are shy!
- So do karaoke machines and microphones
With regard to notetaking, students often need to be explicitly taught to:
- Write only..
- Distinguish between..
- Write only key/content words –not function words
- Distinguish between content and function words – “big” and “little” words
For example, students can underline or highlight the key/content words in sentences.
-When they learn to do this..
When they learn to do this, they can then be taught to take notes, writing down just the key/content words.
Use visualization to help students form pictures of information that they read or hear.
- Tell them that they can picture..
- Help them with this process by..
- Tell them that they can picture a TV in their brain/mind/head; when they hear or read things, they can make pictures on this TV.
- Help them with this process by beginning with familiar items in their homes (pet, sibling, living room). For example, I will ask a student to tell me about his dog. When he has done so, I will tell him that his dog is not present; he was able to describe the dog by using a picture in his brain.
Nanci bell
- Visualize and..
- Help students learn to..
– visualize and verbalize. Helps students learn to form detailed mental images to increase skills in vocab, reading, writing
- Students especially benefit from..
- Visualizing helps..
visualizing, or making pictures in their brain as an adjunct to reading or listening. Visualizing helps information to be retained better, thus aiding in listening and reading comprehension.
Use Total Physical Response (TPR)
-Clinician:
- Clinician: touch your chin (clinician alone does this)
- Clinician: touch your chin (clinician and children do this together)
- Clinician: touch your chin (children alone carry out the command)
TPR is an excellent strategy especially for LI students who are in the early stages of learning English
- Great for..
- Helps students form..
- Great for silent period
- Helps students form stronger associations between words and their referents
INCREASING FAMILY INVOLVEMENT IN STUDENTS’ LEARNING
-Parents of children who..
-Parents of children who speak a minority language should be encouraged to use this language at home
I tell parents..
- That being bilingual is..
- That if their child can grow..
- That being bilingual is a great advantage in today’s world
- That if their child can grow up bilingual, she will be quite valuable in the job market
We can help families become more involved in their children’s learning and schooling…
- Through the use of the..
- We can also..
- During these visits..
- Through the use of the services of cultural mediators
- We can also meet with parents at the school site or conduct home visits.
- During these visits, it is helpful to show samples of their children’s work as well as pictures of their children involved in school activities.
We can help parents understand what U.S. schools expect of them and their children
- Parents need to understand..
- If parents can..
- Parents need to understand the academic/ curricular standards of their children’s schools.
- If parents can volunteer in their children’s classrooms, they will understand the demands of the curriculum much better.
Remember that some parents are non-literate in English…
- Encourage..
- Garage..
- Encourage local library
- Garage sales and flea markets
Help parents find out..
- About local..
- For example, English..
- About local adult literacy services and English classes.
- For example, English classes are often offered at night through local educational agencies.
Many families are surviving..
- Keep..
- When we do give HW..
- I often tell the student..
- Keep assignments short and simple.
- When we do give homework, it needs to only take a few minutes to do, and it needs to be understandable to families.
- I often tell the student what needs to be done, make sure she has a parent sign the assignment, and offer a sticker or small prize for returning it.
Help parents understand the..
relevance of talking to and reading with infants and small children
Marklund et al. (2015). Pause and utterance duration…
- Study carried out in..
- Found: ch whose parents..
- Ch of slow..
- Study carried out in Sweden with parents and 1;6 years old
- Found: ch whose parents responded the fastest to their utterances had the largest vocabularies
- Ch of slow responding parents had smaller vocabularies
Lewis, N, (2017). Our role in early identification
- It is very important to help..
- New resource:
- All materials are available in..
- It is very important to help parents learn the signs of potential LI, ASD, etc.—they need to understand typical developmental milestones
- New resource: Learn the signs, act early
www. cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly - All materials are available in English and Spanish; some are translated into Arabic, Korean, Vietnamese, Somali, and Portuguese
Duran et al. (2016). Bilingual and home language interventions…
-Conducted a meta..
-Conducted a meta-analysis of what bilingual or home language interventions are effective for LI 2-6 year old bilinguals
Duran et al. 2016 found:
- Monolingual SLPs can..
- Parent..
- Monolingual SLPs can train parents effectively
- Parent storybook reading in L1 was esp. effective
Bitetti, C., & Hammer, C. (2016). The home literacy environment…
- Examined the home..
- 91..
- Looked at..
- Examined the home literacy environment (HLE) on the English narrative development of Spanish-English bilingual children from low-income backgrounds
- 91 bilingual children preschool-first grade
- Looked at narrative micro-and macro-structure (microstructure = MLU and # of different words)
Bitetti & Hammer (2016) found:
- The availability of..
- We need to increase..
- The more often the moms..
- The availability of books in the home was key – many homes owned very few books
- We need to increase the number of books available
- The more often the moms read with their ch, the longer the ch’s narrative growth
Encourage students to read to their parents in English
- This helps develop..
- Many parents want to..
- This helps develop students’ literacy skills.
- Many parents want to learn English, and they are helped by hearing their children read to them in English.
Research (Ron Gillam) was conducted:
- Low SES parents given..
- Wordless books generated..
- Parents increase..
- Low ses (some bilingual) parents given wordless books to read; others – books with print
- Wordless books generated rich lang during reading than print books
- Parents increase animated, discussed wordless books more creatively