My previous blog posts have dealt primarily with the identification and evaluation of ELL students with learning disabilities. As an educator, I need to know more about how I can support these students in the classroom. My search led me to the website http://www.ldonline.org/ where I found the artcle, "Learning Disabilities in English Language Learners." For the most part the article echoed the information I found in my previous two resources, but it also provided some information regarding the appropriate remediation for these students. One thing that I found interesting was that, according to research, ELL students with learning disabilities benefit from the same types of interventions that are used for monolingual students who have learning disabilities. Some examples of these interventions are explicit phonemic awareness instruction, explicit instruction in comprehension-strategies, and peer-assisted learning. However, ELL students with learning disabilities have additional special instructional needs such as an emphasis on English vocabulary development and sheltered English techniques such as visual aids, pictures, gestures, and facial expressions.
While this article does not very in-depth, it did provide helpful information about how to teach ELL students with learning disabilities, as well as a list of peer-reviewed journal articles on this topic. Now that I am learning more about how to accommodate the needs of these students in the classroom, I need to expand my search to incorporate how I, as an educator can accommodate the needs of the family unit as a whole.

http://www.ldonline.org/spearswerling/Learning_Disabilities_in_English_Language_Learners