Beginning in 2024 and continuing into 2025, I conducted an informal needs analysis to craft a workshop for Refugee Development Center (RDC) English Language instructors on the topic of disability inclusion for additional language learning and teaching. Wanting to make my workshop as useful as possible to RDC teachers, I engaged in an almost year-long …
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Hot off the presses! My chapter outlining how language centers can be leaders in access appears in the just released Language Center Handbook 2025 published by the International Association of Language Learning Technology (IALLT). In my chapter, I examined the many ways language centers can prioritize disability inclusion within various operations and projects in centers’ …
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Here's an update on the 2025 special issue of Studies in Second Language Acquisition: Disability and Second Language Learning. It’s been a pleasure working with our contributing authors, and I’m as grateful as ever to my co-guest editor Rob Randez. Three “teaser” articles are out in first view: Reza Rezvani, Hessameddin Ghanbar, & Yasamin Khanshir …
My chapter outlining how language centers can be leaders in access will appear in the imminently forthcoming Language Center Handbook 2025 published by the International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT). This summer, I joined the book launch at the FLEAT 8 conference in Honolulu, Hawai’i! It was great to spend some time with the …
On April 30, 2025, I successfully defended my dissertation: University world language instructors’ readiness for disability inclusion. I also gave a version of the defense presentation at the 7th annual Second Language Learning and Disabilities conference (here’s the slide deck). You know what this means: I learned so much from my instructor participants that I …
The 2025 TESOL convention gave me a good sized room to talk about early-service K-12 teachers’ preparedness to address the needs of their disabled multilinguals’ needs. Disability topics usually draw a small but dedicated crowd of language folks. I had an audience of thirty super engaged teachers who asked great questions and nodded along with …
I’m very proud to share that I, along with four co-authors who were all at one time or another students I mentored, have published a project near and dear to our hearts. We collected articles and resources at the intersection of K-12 language learning for emergent bilinguals with disabilities for the purpose of easing the …
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I teamed up with my colleagues from Michigan State University's Romance and Classical Studies department to organize a professional development series on accessibility and inclusion for language teaching and learning. Our inaugural series takes place this spring semester 2025 and will feature 4 different events on various topics related to accessible and inclusive language instruction. …
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Here’s another what-would-you-do scenario. I got this question from an in-service K-12 language teacher recently. She explained: I have a student who has a hearing aid and lip reads to make sure he's understanding his teachers. His 504 says to use captions/subtitles with videos during instruction, but nothing about during assessments. My group might also …
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I’ve gotten a fair amount of individual questions recently about accessibility tips for presentations and presentation materials. I thought I should share my responses with a wider audience, especially since it’s conference season for world language educators in the U.S. (and conference season for applied linguists will be here before we know it). I’ve put …
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Caitlin Cornell 