Promising Practices to Empower Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families of Children with Disabilities (Family School Community Partnership Issues) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1623966329 ISBN 13: 9781623966324

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

(sponsored by the Family School Community Partnership Issues SIG)

Promising Practices to Empower Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families of Children with Disabilities offers research-supported school practices to empower families from diverse cultural backgrounds to make informed decisions regarding their children with diverse disabilities. In order to insure that every child is receiving the most appropriate educational program, these practices should be included in teacher and administrator preparation program throughout every county, state, and province.

Every site administrator, school counselor and special education teacher should have a copy of this book at one’s fingertips for ready reference. Suggested practices include activities for parent organizing, parent education, ways to provide co-mentoring of families, and formal support at Individualized Education Program meetings.

About this title

About the Author

Lusa Lo, University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA

Diana Hiatt-Michael, Pepperdine University, USA

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1623966329
• ISBN 13: 9781623966324
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 158
• Editor: Lo Lusa, Hiatt-Michael Diana B.