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This paper reviews a book “Guidelines for Multilingual Deaf Education Teacher Preparation Programs” by Kurz et.

al (2021).

This publication discusses a new prospective in Deaf Education which is Multilingual Deaf Education Teacher Preparation Programs.

The Multilingual Deaf Education program is an update term of bilingual Deaf education.

Their main goal is to provide a guideline for Deaf education teacher training programs to prepare teachers in high quality to meet the needs of diverse languages and identities of Deaf students.

In the book, the writers provide definitions of some terminologies related to Multilingual Deaf Education program and provides theoretical framework that considered when preparing their guideline.

These guidelines offer recommendations for key components that can be parts of multilingual teacher preparation programs.

These recommendations can be used to modify an existing program or to develop a new one.

Since Saudi Arabia is seeking to move towards inclusive education, this book can be used as a reference for deaf teacher preparation programs so it can be aligned with the newest trends in education.