Inclusive Education Is Focus of Discussion
At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus, March 11

Brooklyn, N.Y. — "Native Language and Special Education: From Requirement to Resource" is the topic of a talk on inclusive education at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus.

The Campus’s School of Education is sponsoring the talk, which will take place on Thursday, March 11, from 5 to 7 p.m. in Library Learning Center, Room 124. It is free and open to the public. The speaker is Nancy L. Cloud, a specialist in urban, multicultural special education.

Cloud is a professor in the Department of Special Education, Feinstein School of Education and Human Development, Rhode Island College. She co-directs a graduate program in urban multicultural special education which prepares special educators to serve their English Language Learners with disabilities more effectively.

Her publications include "Dual Language Instruction: A Handbook for Enriched Education," and chapters on special and bilingual education in "English Language Learners with Special Needs: Identification, Placement and Instruction" and in the "Handbook of Multicultural School Psychology."

Downes is the former coordinator of the M.S. TESL and Bilingual Education programs at Hofstra University and a past member of the TESOL Board of Directors.

For more information, contact Marita Downes at (718) 488-1378, or e-mail marita.downes@liu.edu.

Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus opened in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. More than 30,000 students currently are enrolled at the University’s three residential and three regional compuses, including more than 11,000 at the Brooklyn Campus.