Teaching Beyond Spoken Words: Communicating With Bilingual Nonspeaking Children in the Classroom

This book presents strategies to help educators understand, communicate with, and support their multilingual nonspeaking children. We often tell parents and caregivers to carry over specific skills and strategies that are taught to their children in classrooms and provider sessions, but rarely, if ever, do we encourage educators to carry over strategies that are occurring in the child’s family and community. Centered on case studies of four families of nonspeaking bilingual children, this b...