A Review of Developmental and Applied Language Research on African American Children: From a Deficit to Difference Perspective on Dialect Differences

by stockman

because absence of inflectional morphology and substitution of /f/ for /th/ is a symptom of language disorders in native speakers of SAE, AAVE speaking children are sometimes sent to special ed. Clinicians need to know about dialects!

Sustaining language diversity

by Wolfram

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=eEjl6gZfmhwC&oi=fnd&pg=PA187&dq=dialect+awareness&ots=is4C16fJ70&sig=bmJ4btBUqOsAiCAynpX_EYEKex4#v=onepage&q=dialect%20awareness&f=false

Linguists are obligated to get the message of language diversity out. Unfortunately, service is devalued in the academy.

There is a market for documentaries on language diversity.