Clare Russell

Clare Russell has been in the classroom for 25 years and counting. Her experience ranges from running behavioral classrooms for elementary populations to teaching math and language arts in the middle school setting. She has also taught ELL students who also have learning disabilities.

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• ELLs and receptive language issues: Where does one end and the other begin?

  Monday, August 06, 2018

  I have been teaching for 25 years and counting, with most of those years working with students with learning disabilities. For my students who are also officially classified as ELL, I found myself wondering where one diagnosis stops and the other one begins. Receptive language problems mean someone finds verbal language problematic. A person who is learning a new language also finds verbal language in problematic, usually in that language.