Obviously there is a difference between a community's diversity and knowing how, as a teacher, to deal with it. ... What is more likely to be the case is that most parents are willing to help their child's education but don't always know how (Cairney & Munsie, 1995, p.1). ... According to research, children from mainstream homes come to school with considerable language and literacy experience. ... Educators need to work with parents as partners and view diverse families as capable, cultural units, whose needs are formed by economic and political factors rather than poor pare...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Looking at the chronological history helped with my understanding of how ASL could have came from and is the same in France. ... All this time I thought that ASL was only picture symbols used to communicate English with the deaf. ... In spoken languages complex meanings are made by combining individual units of meaning or morphemes, for example if you want a word to mean past tense you would add -ed to the end of the word. ... An example for making the sign "working is difficult", instead of needing three different signs you can make it all at once by adding the manual bound morpheme -ing ...

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• Grade Level: High School