Particular polyglots: multilingual students with autism |
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Authors: | Diana Baker |
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Institution: | Lynch School of Education, Boston College , Chestnut Hill , MA , USA |
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Abstract: | Many American children with autism live in multilingual environments. Yet an almost diametric contrast exists between the advice of practitioners and the recommendations found in scholarly literature. Whereas practitioners almost unanimously counsel that children on the autism spectrum be exposed to English alone, an increasing number of scholars have argued the potential benefits for these children of learning their parents’ native language as well. This paper argues that, in fact, language recommendations for children on the spectrum should fall somewhere between these two poles and be tailored to individual children and their families. |
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Keywords: | autism culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students multilingual immigrant |
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