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Article: Hispanic students at risk: do we abdicate or advocate?
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- Exceptional Children
- Article date:
- October 1, 1989
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Hispanic Students at Risk: Do We Abdicate or Advocate?
ABSTRACT: With the rapid growth of Hispanic student populations in the United Stages comes a corresponding increase in the number of students who have limited English proficiency as well as disabilities. Specific educational interventions, such as programs of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) and bilingual instruction, are needed to enable these students to enter the mainstream. The chief obstacles to bilingual special education are the paucity of personnel training programs that include cross-cultural communication, and a lack of awareness of the need for these services. Transdisciplinary teaming is ...