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An 8
page paper discussing how assessment, curriculum and instructional methods differ for
students from culturally or linguistically different backgrounds, and how the presence of
learning disabilities affects those differences. The paper includes a discussion of how
teachers can begin to increase their sensitivity to cultural and linguistic differences.
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Page Count:
8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSeduLD2.rtf
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days of standardized IQ tests given to Americas schoolchildren, it has been white students who have returned the highest scores. For a generation, educators believed that these children simply
were better learners, more intelligent or perhaps simply had greater opportunity. In the past twenty years, it has become obvious that many of these tests measure cultural and linguistic
differences more than differences in intelligence. When any learning disability is added to the scene, disparity becomes even greater. Much of the
research of recent years has been trained on overcoming these cultural and linguistic differences while also "teaching around" any learning disabilities that may be present.
Major Issues Efforts to classify children so that they can be taught in ways most meaningful to them have resulted
in an overrepresentation of specific labels applied to them. The popularity of these labels appears to be cyclical. As example, it became so common in the mid-1990s to
fit nearly any child into the Attention-Deficit Disorder (ADD) model that the disorder became laughable for many and those truly suffering from its effects often were neglected once again.
Almost any teacher in any elementary school could find ADD models that could accommodate virtually every child in class. Thankfully, it eventually became obvious that the problem with overwhelming
numbers of ADD children was not that there were so many of them, but that the criteria for classification was flawed. Coffey and
Obringer (2000) describe the situation in Mississippi, addressing the state as whole, but focusing on the rural aspect. Nearly all of Mississippi is rural in that only the capital
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