Families, Professionals, and Exceptionality: Collaborating for Empowerment - Softcover

Turnbull, Ann A.; WALKER

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130163031 ISBN 13: 9780130163035

Publisher: Pearson, 2000

Synopsis

This book is for courses that prepare special and general educators and related service providers to form successful partnerships with families of children with disabilities.

Written by the best-known authors in the field of family and professional collaboration, this practical text instructs teachers and families how to empower, collaborate, and advocate for children with special needs. It retains the features of the third edition-the family systems perspectives, an emphasis on empowerment through parent/family and professional collaboration, and a multicultural approach. The authors have created a framework that transforms the complex theory of empowerment and implements techniques into an approach that is easy to understand and to apply.

About this title

From the Back Cover

From the best-known authors in the field of family and professional collaboration, this practical text instructs teachers and families how to empower, collaborate with, and advocate for children with special needs.

Features include:

• New: broadens the range and severity of disabilities covered; a number of new families are featured, many of whom have children with mild disabilities.
• Advances an "empowerment" model of collaboration.
• Explains the 1997 amendments to IDEA and how to put them into practice.
• Companion Website: www.prenhall.com/turnbull

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0130163031
• ISBN 13: 9780130163035
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 449