[Edling] Online Event | 12 Oct | Ensuring Effective Language Access Services and Policies in Early Childhood Programs

[Francis M. Hult via Edling]

Migration Policy Institute

Ensuring Effective Language Access Services and Policies in Early Childhood
Programs


When:
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

3:30 P.M. ET (New York, D.C.) / 2:30 P.M. CT (Chicago) / 1:30 P.M. MT
(Denver) / 12:30 P.M. PT (Los Angeles)

Where:
MPI Webinar

Speakers:

Ivana Tú Nhi Giang, former Program and Research Assistant, National Center
on Immigrant Integration Policy, Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

Jacob Hofstetter, Associate Policy Analyst, MPI

Maki Park, Senior Policy Analyst, MPI
Moderator:

Margie McHugh, Director, National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy,
MPI

One in three young children in the United States is a Dual Language
Learners (DLL), and nearly half of these children have at least one parent
who is Limited English Proficient (LEP). Language access policies and
services are critical to promoting the equitable participation of these
families in early childhood education and care (ECEC) programs, yet
persisting gaps in participation for DLL children in many public ECEC
programs demonstrate the need for improved language services to support
this population. Amid this reality, the needs for even basic translation
and interpretation for children and parents and relevant language skills
among early childhood staff are often overlooked. Indeed, many early
childhood services lack the necessary data and accountability measures to
demonstrate equal access for DLL families, despite civil-rights
requirements that they do so.

In this webinar, MPI experts will provide an overview of a new policy brief
outlining federal and state efforts to implement language access policies
in the early childhood field. The conversation will examine the right to
language access in federally funded services and the application of this
right to early childhood programs. It will also focus on the language and
other barriers that immigrant and DLL families face in accessing early
childhood programs despite existing language access requirements, as well
as opportunities to improve language services.

Online event:
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/events/dual-language-learners-language-access
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