Dr. Lim comes to UTEP from the Department of Special Education at the University of Kansas (KU). She specialized in Disability and Diversity in Education and Society with a cognate in Special Education Policy and Systems Studies. Her research focuses on how monolingual ideologies and biases in U.S. schools affect educational opportunities, performances, or outcomes of emergent bilingual students with or at risk for high incidence disabilities. Dr. Lim is especially interested in monolingual English-speaking school professionals’ decision-making about emergent bilingual students that includes the (mis)identification of Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD). In her research, she situates these students’ sociolinguistic profiles and functionings within a social construction of dis/ability that emerges from the intersection of their minoritized identities of race and ethnicity, socioeconomic and immigration status, and heritage culture and language. Her research is, therefore, committed to promoting linguistically equitable and effective literacy instruction and assessments for students with language-related challenges and different learning needs in relation to linguistic diversity. Based on her transnational experiences as an immigrant parent from South Korea, promoting equitable partnerships with culturally and linguistically diverse families in special education is another central part of her research. She has published multiple research articles that analyzed how special education service systems address the communication support needs of ethnolinguistic minority families, who are non-U.S. heritage born immigrants, in monolingual English driven school-family collaboration contexts. This line of research is aimed at fostering school professionals’ civic engagement and cultivating democratic professional partnerships with immigrant families that go beyond ethical legalism. Such partnerships are essential to encouraging active parental participation in students’ school success. She is currently a member of the American Education Research Association (AERA), the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), and the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA).

• Ph D in Special Education, University of Kansas (2021)
• MS in Special Education, Saint Cloud State University (2015)
• BA in Elementary Education, Gyeongin National University of Education (2005)

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