Evaluating Young Children From Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds for Special Education Services

Rashida Banerjee and Mark Guiberson Young Exceptional Children (2012) 15(1), 33–45

This article describes the issues and challenges that EI/ECSE professionals face when assessing young children and their families from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds and provides a brief synthesis of research-based and promising evaluation practices for EI/ECSE professionals when working with these children, families, and other professionals.