Special Education and ELLs: Recommended Resources
Take a look at these recommended resources focused on special education and ELLs, including reports, books, and guidelines which provide detailed frameworks, and tools that can help support ELL success.
Featured Articles
- Addressing ELLs’ Language Learning and Special Education Needs: Questions and Considerations
- A Word Beginning with "T": "Maestra"
- Finding My Way Books: Celebrating Children with Open Hearts
- Some Myths Regarding ELLs and Special Education
- Bilingual Students With Disabilities Get Special Help
Blog Posts
- New CCSS Resources from Education Week and Understanding Language
- Assessment Initiatives: ELLs & the CCSS
- New from Diane and Colleagues! Evaluating ALL Teachers of English Learners and Students With Disabilities
Books and Booklists
Guides and Toolkits
Research and Reports
- Language and Reading Interventions for English Language Learners and English Language Learners with Disabilities
- Descriptive Study of Services to LEP Students and LEP Students with Disabilities
- Features of State Response to Intervention Initiatives in Northeast and Islands Region States
- English Language Learners with Special Needs: Effective Instructional Strategies
- Processes and Challenges in Identifying Learning Disabilities Among English Language Learner Students in Three New York State Districts
Recommended Resources
State Resources
These statewide resources, modules, and guidebooks also have extensive information, support materials, and translated forms regarding dually-identified students:
Acknowledgements
This resource section was made possible through our partnership with the National Education Association. Additional support was provided by the American Federation of Teachers.
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