How can educators transform language education to empower multilingual and neurodiverse learners while respecting their identities?

Jaime Hoerricks challenges the colonial mindset that promotes "Standard English" over home languages. This book addresses the unique needs of Gestalt Language Processors in primary and secondary schools, where English functions as a foreign language. Using the Natural Language Acquisition model and the Power Threat Meaning Framework, Dr. Hoerricks advocates for an inclusive, equitable approach that values diverse linguistic backgrounds and empowers students to thrive academically while preserving cultural identities.

Ideal for educators, researchers, and students in education studies, this book offers critical insights on inclusive language education for multilingual and neurodiverse learners.

Jaime Hoerricks is a non-verbal autistic advocate, researcher, educator, bestselling author, and elected official with diverse global experiences.

"Jaime Hoerricks lives in Neenach, a remote community tucked into the mountainous reaches of northern Los Angeles County. Marked by stark contrasts and quiet resilience, the landscape is a stretch of chaparral where jackrabbits scatter along dirt roads and coyotes linger at the edge of the brush. In this wind-swept silence, the human world thins enough for nature to be heard again—beneath vast, unhindered skies and a rhythm older than asphalt. Neenach is a town without spectacle but rich in intimacy, where a walk to the mailbox becomes a moment of communion and coexistence is a daily practice. Life moves slowly but purposefully, shaped by seasons, moonlight, and dust. For those who live between categories—autistic, trans, whimsical—it offers not erasure, but space: a pause, and a possibility."