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Gould, Elizabeth. "Music Education Desire(ing): Language, Literacy, and Lieder." Philosophy of Music Education Review, Volume 17, issue 1 (June 04, 2009), p. 41-55. OhioLINK. Web. 20 November 2010. Issues of desire in music education are integral and anathema to the profession. Constituted of and by desire, we bodily engage music emotionally and cognitively; yet references to the body are limited to how it may be better managed in order to produce more satisfactory (desired) sounds, thus disciplining desire as we focus on the content of teaching (music) to the virtual exclusion of its subjects (students)-and our selves.

Quintero, Elizabeth, TX. Literacy Center. El Paso Community Coll., and Others And. "Project FIEL: Family Initiative for English Literacy Handbook." (1990): ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. This text is about English and literacy. It explains how important language is for the evolution of literacy. It gives different visual examples of the development of children throughout the years. The project that the article is about informs the reader how important it is for literacy to develop all throughout the ages. Parents needs to be the primary assistants in helping progress a child's english and literacy, and then teachers take on the role as they get older. This article houses many examples for this inquiry.

Taymans, Juliana M., et al. Learning to Achieve: A Review of the Research Literature on Serving Adults with Learning Disabilities. National Institute for Literacy, 2009. ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 31 Oct. 2010. This source talks about how to identify someone with a learning disability. It tells the impact of having a learning disability. It gives a developmental view of adults with learning disabilities, and tells how to intervene with different accommodations for them. The author also explains the difficulty in identifying a learning disability in those who are just learning the english language.

Barnes, Elizabeth, et al. "Phonological Accuracy and Intelligibility in Connected Speech of Boys With Fragile X Syndrome or Down Syndrome." Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research 52.4 (2009): 1048-1061. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. This article is looking at phonological accuracy and speech intelligibility. It compares reasearch on these two areas in boys with Down Syndrome and boys with autism spectrum disorder, and then boys with both. They test each of these things at differnt age levels. This article shares the results of the study with different tables and text.

Ingraham L. Cynthia, Jean F. Andrews. "The hands and reading: What deafblind adult readers tell us." The British Journal of the Visually Impairment 28.2 (2010) : 103-138. Electronic Journal Center. Web. 3 November 2010. This article tells the story of three adults who are deaf blind and their approach to reading different types of texts. It provides analysis and interviews with each individual as they reflect on how they learned language and how to read as young children. Many deaf blind people tend to isolate themselves and remain illiterate in their home for most of their lives. However the story of these three individual is different. For them they are readers who enjoy reading for pleasure and have achieved higher levels of education because of their reading skills. These three people all used computer technology, scanners, print enlargers, and JAWS software. These people stress the importance that technology played along their journey to literacy.

Sutcliffe, Paul A., et al. "Effect of Attentional State on Frequency Discrimination: A Comparison of Children With ADHD On and Off Medication." Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research 49.5 (2006): 1072-1084. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. This is journal article examines the difference between children with ADHD on and off medication. The researchers ran a test that judged the children's auditory awareness. The researchers tested both kids with ADHD and kids without ADHD. The results showed that children with ADHD performed much worse without the stimulant medication than the children without ADHD. This shows that auditory awareness can directly be influenced by the attention status of children who have ADHD.

Woodall, Laura and Brenda Ziembroski. "Promoting Literacy Through Music." Songsforteaching.com. Songs for Teaching TM, 2009. Web. 3 November 2010. This article is primarily about finding confidence in writing and reading through music. It goes on to say that children are naturally wired to sounds and rhythms so at a young age it can be used to establish rhyming patterns in areas of reading and writing. Music can be a way to remember stories and learn more about the world. Repetition of songs enhances emergent literacy. The article also says music and print language are similar.

Banks, James A. "Educating Global Citizens in a Diverse World." New Horizons for Learning. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This text discusses all the necessary reasons to become involved with global and multicultural education and obtain knowledge from the different cultures, languages, religions and racial and ethnic groups. Because of the growth of cultures throughout the world, citizenship education needs to be changed in order to educate students how to function in today's interdependent society and global culture. Student's need the knowledge, attitudes and skills required to function in their cultural communities.

Poyrazli, Senel, and Kamini Maraj Grahame. "Barriers to Adjustment: Needs of International Students within a Semi-Urban Campus Community." Journal of Instructional Psychology 34.1 (2007): 28-45. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This study focus on the transformation that most International go through when they come to the United States. The basic barriers that most students face such as environment, English language proficiency, academic life,psychological experiences and social life. the study gives some tips and suggestions for the International students who just started their academic life. how to communicate more and to participate more in the class.

Sherry, Mark. "International students: a vulnerable student population." Higher Education 60.1 (2010), 33-46. This study is about International students at the University of Toledo, they represent 10% of the total number of students (16,000 students). the university made an online survey for international students, because the university wanted help them overcome those barriers and make them feel home. this study cover a lot of issues that student face everyday English language problems, financial and readjustment with the campus life and the whole academic life. it also gives us an idea about how the university helped them with those problem and guided them through the process.

Kaderavek, Joan N., and Paula Rabidoux. "INTERACTIVE TO INDEPENDENT LITERACY: A MODEL FOR DESIGNING LITERACY GOALS FOR CHILDREN WITH ATYPICAL COMMUNICATION." Reading & Writing Quarterly 20.3 (2004): 237-260. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. This article talks about how autistic children develop their literacy through a range of activities and behaviors. It also talks about two pain points in how autistic children develop their literacy techniques. Experts believe that learning literacy early on for autistic children will not determine their total oral language development. They need to look at reading and writing as communication practices from an early age. It is also talks about how speech production can be improved through writing instructions. Social interaction is a large part of developing literacy.

Gay, Geneva. "The Importance of Multicultural Education." Educational Leadership 61.4 (2003): 30-35. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. This article discusses how curriculum's that contain multicultural education prepare students for roles as productive citizens and gives them a broad worldview which is important for academic success. This article focuses on the United States and the need to incorporate global education within a student's education. With domestic diversity within America and the constant flow of immigrants, gaining more insight about other cultures and ways of life is beneficial and essential when interacting with people from different backgrounds. Unfamiliar groups, cultures and languages can produce anxiety and hostility from those who don't understand or are ignorant to other cultures. This article offers several suggestions for teacher to go about incorporating global education into many different subjects.

Spencer, Amy. "Facilitating the Academic Success of International Students." Teaching Theology & Religion 6.3 (2003): 164-168. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. This essay is about the learning challenges that International Students need to overcome in order to have successful Academic education. It also how some teachers need to adjust their teaching methods to facilitate learning by international students.helping students develop social skills that would help them in and outside the class room. it also give the reader the process that most International Students go through when they first came to the U.S. first there are the International Students adjustment with the new environment. The second is the academic issues such as language difficulties and communicating in class.

Charles, Harvey, and Mac A. Stewart. "Academic Advising of International Students." Journal of Multicultural Counseling & Development 19.4 (1991): 173-181. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. The article discusses the importance of academic advising for international students. how can the adviser help international students to make plans for their education and at the same time help them adapt with the campus life and overcoming homesickness, language difficulty, discrimination, financial problems and depression and guide them to success

Sherry, Mark, Thomas Peter and Wing Hong Chui. "International students: a vulnerable student population". Higher Education; Jul 2010, Vol. 60 Issue 1, p33-46, 14p. The article takes a study of students at University of Toledo right here in Ohio, examining the problems they face as well as how they are helped in overcoming them, from social to economic to language barriers.