Addressing the Challenges of Teaching English Language Learning Students
in the Mainstream Classroom

ELL Students With Special Education Needs

"ELL students are especially at-risk in relation to disability status, because most schools are not well prepared to deal with differences in learning, behavior, culture, and language either separately or in combination."

(Virginia Gonzales, 1997)


Identification and Assessment of Special Needs

Identification of Special Education Needs

Assessing the learner

Assessing the needs of low-level learners

Assessing LEP migrant students for special education services

Working with Students With Special Needs

Teaching Learning Strategies

Instructing Bilingual Exceptional Students

Teaching Strategies

Classroom Strategies for Working with 
Students with Disabilities

What Curriculum Strategies and Classroom 
Practices Meet these Special Needs?

Allow Students to Become Active Generators of their Own Knowledge

Instructional Methods and Materials

Functional Language Instruction for Linguistically Different Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities

What Program Design Elements Facilitate 
Instruction of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners with Special Needs?







Communicating with Parents

Communicating with Culturally Diverse Parents of Exceptional Children

Promoting Family Involvement and Respecting Diversity

Involving Parents
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