Issues in Bilingual Special Education.

Overview & Synopsis

Twelve author-contributed papers are presented from a 1983 conference on bilingual special education. The following authors and titles are represented: "The Challenge: Providing Quality Special Education Services to Linguistic Minority Students" (M. Serpa); "Bilingual Special Education: Issues in Student Placement" (S. Santos and R. Santos); "Where Do Native Language Interference Problems End--And Development Problems Begin" (L. Olguin); "Assessment Techniques in the Identification of the Culturally Different Gifted Student" (L. Amodeo); "Assessing the Multicultural Child" (C. Lopez); "Task Analysis Is Particularly Critical for Bilingual Special Education Pupils" (L. Olguin); "Conducive Learning for Language Minority Students" (M. Serpa); "Critical Issues in Bilingual Education for Counselors and Teachers" (B. Martin); "Issues in Bilingual Special Education: Teacher Preparation" (D. Banuelos); "Bilingual Vocational Education for Mildly Handicapped Hispanic Adolescents" (M. Plata); "Computer-Assisted Instruction for Limited Proficiency Students Learning Basic English Structures" (D. McClure, D. King and B. Dogger); and "Assessing the Bilingual Child: What Should Be, What Is and What Could Be" (R. Deyoe-Chiullan). (CL)