SPE 695 - Disability and Sheltered English Immersion

Disability can play a confounding role in determining appropriate services for English language learners. Special Educators and reading specialists regularly ask themselves the following pair of questions: Does this student have a disability or are they learning English for the first time? What do we do if both are true? This course teaches the approaches that special educators should use for students who are learning English and may also have a learning, emotional, cognitive or behavioral disability. The course will cover the basic information for determining the effects of disability on language acquisition while considering the effect of culture on diagnosis, remediation, academic self-concept and intervention.

(Cr: 3