Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
Internet Links
This page includes links to websites with information and/or materials of relevance to special education professionals. Many of the links were collected by Dr. Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin, author of Multicultural Students with Special Language Needs: Practical Strategies for Assessment and Intervention.
General Information/Demographic Data
Census Bureau - www.census.gov
Center for Immigration Studies - www.cis.org
ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation - www,ericae.net
Multicultural/Bilingual Issues
Bilingual Families Web Page - www.nethelp.no/cindy/biling-fam.html
National Association for Bilingual Education - www.nabe.org
U.S. Department of Education - www.ed.gov/index.html
African American English Websites
Summer Institute of Linguistics - http://www.sil.org
Native American Cultures/Languages
American Indian Studies - www.csulb.edu/projects/ais
Spanish Language
CiberCentro - www.cibercentro.com
Yahoo! in Spanishl - espanol.yahoo.com
Miscellaneous Bilingual and ESL Websites
www.comenius.com (free online activities including Fluency Through Fables, short tales created to improve English reading comprehension, and a collection of idioms)
www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/multi_new (Multicultural Supersite is a valuable source of information and resources)
www.wordsmith.org (Information relating to the study of words)
www.wordfocus.com/index.html (Focusing on Words site is dedicated to enhancing vocabulary skills through looking at the Latin and Greek elements of words)
www.enchantedlearning.com (online picture dictionaries and resources in a variety of languages)
www.pdictionary.com (online picture dictionaries in English, Spanish, French, German. and Italian)
acadcom.com. (Resources for assessment and intervention with special needs students)