UC Davis experts: Bilingual education
The University of California, Davis, has campus experts available to provide commentary related bilingual education.
Special Education Efforts
Richard Figueroa, a professor of education at UC Davis who focuses on bilingual special education. If bilingual education is eliminated from California's public schools, he says, many children will be wrongly diagnosed as mildly retarded or learning disabled simply because they don't speak English well enough. Figueroa, co-author of the book "Bilingualism and Testing: A Special Case of Bias," advises the Los Angeles Unified School District on how to provide special education for children who are from Hispanic and potentially bilingual families. Contact, Richard Figueroa, Education, (530) 752-6293, (fluent Spanish speaker) rafigueroa@ucdavis.edu.
Historical Perspectives
Lenora Timm, linguistics professor at UC Davis and an expert in bilingualism, particularly the value of bilingualism. She researches multilingual and bilingual societies and can discuss global and historical perspectives on bilingualism. Contact Lenora Timm, Linguistics, (530) 752-4540, latimm@ucdavis.edu.
Media contacts:
- Julia Ann Easley, UC Davis News Service, (530) 752-8248, jaeasley@ucdavis.edu
- Claudia Morain (530) 752-9841, cmmorain@ucdavis.edu
Last updated January 22, 2004
