ESL Children and their Complicated Relationship with Special Education by Ashley Tuell

ashleytuell425 — 2025-05-01 15:46:38 UTC

This resource explains why ESL learners are often overrepresented in special education and ways parents and teachers can support them.

ashleytuell425 — 2025-05-01 15:48:35 UTC

This resource helps educators determine whether an ESL child is struggling due to limited English proficiency or a disability.

ashleytuell425 — 2025-05-01 15:51:24 UTC

This source provides a better understanding of the academic challenges ELLs face in American classrooms.

ashleytuell425 — 2025-05-01 15:53:56 UTC

This resource provides a video of educators explaining the difficulty of ELLs and special education and the importance of careful evaluation when determining what support is best for the child.

ashleytuell425 — 2025-05-01 16:02:49 UTC

This study dives deep into why English learners are disproportional represented in special ed. It concludes that, "Educators have difficulty distinguishing students who truly have special education needs from students who are learning English as a second language (Artiles & Klingner, 2006). ELs are disadvantaged by the scarcity of appropriate, valid and reliable assessment instruments and a lack of personnel trained to conduct culturally valid educational assessments. ELs who need special education services are further negatively impacted by the shortage of special education teachers and/or specialists who are trained to address their language and disability needs simultaneously."

ashleytuell425 — 2025-05-01 17:11:27 UTC

This resource outlined collaboration and response methods for ELs with disabilities.

ashleytuell425 — 2025-05-01 17:13:17 UTC

This is a parent's guide to their child's education after diagnosis. This is also available in Spanish to help ESL parents.

ashleytuell425 — 2025-05-01 17:15:03 UTC

Here is the US Department of Education's outline for the best partnership with families and schools when navigating disabilities.

ashleytuell425 — 2025-05-01 17:17:58 UTC

This video has the goal of encouraging equitable access to education by empowering families to understand terms and the IEP process.

ashleytuell425 — 2025-05-01 17:19:57 UTC

This video was filmed by Massachusetts educators who shared the best techniques on creating inclusive classrooms for ESL and non-ESL learners.

ashleytuell425 — 2025-05-01 17:23:47 UTC

This study was very insightful as it showed that teachers will often refer Hispanic children to special ed as they do not know "what to do" with them and feel helpless as educators.

ashleytuell425 — 2025-05-01 17:26:31 UTC

This article lays out proven techniques to assist ESL teachers in successful multilingual practices.

ashleytuell425 — 2025-05-01 17:28:21 UTC

This study illuminated the positive connection between proficient students and effective teachers.

ashleytuell425 — 2025-05-01 17:30:13 UTC

This article shows the importance of collaboration between general and special education teachers to support ESL students. Without this collaboration, students struggle to make progress in learning English.

ashleytuell425 — 2025-05-01 17:32:00 UTC

This was a great summative source as it showed how teachers can implement strategies to help close the achievement gap between white and ESL students.