Bilingual
Special Education Resource Center
Bilingual Special Education
is the provision of appropriate services to
students with limited English proficiency under
PART 154 regulations, as well as the provision of
appropriate special education services under the
PART 200 regulations for those students that need
them. In other words, it means providing the
student with all of the appropriate services
warranted, both for language needs and educational
needs. As stated in the Guidelines for Services to
Students with Limited English Proficiency and
Special Education Needs in New York State,
published by The University of the State of New
York/State Education Department, 1981: "the major
goal of bilingual special education is 'to help
each individual student achieve a maximum
potential for learning. Above all, the program is
concerned with the child's cognitive and affective
development...where language and culture are used
as an appropriate means rather than as ends in
themselves." (Baca & Cervantes, 1984)
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