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Working With Parents and Families of Exceptional Children and Youth
Techniques for SuccessfulConferencing and Collaboration
Richard L. Simpson
Third Edition
This book champions the notion that educators and related professionals, including classroom teachers, must be involved in helping parents and families to contend with the various issues they routinely confront when raising and living with a child with an exceptionality. The book is based on the premise that suitably trained educators are the most appropriate resources for collaboratively serving the needs of parents and families of children with exception-alities. Thus, the book is structured to develop professionals' know-ledge and skill in a variety of areas related to working effectively with parents and families.
A central feature of the book is the notion that parent and family communication and collaboration require both cognitive understanding and related experiences. Thus, readers are provided a theoretical, clinical, and empirical foundation for parent and family involvement; functional information in essential areas of parent conferencing and family involvement; and simulation experience opportunities designed to develop important parent- and family-related skills.
Contents include Understanding and Responding to Needs of Parents and Families, Impact of Children and Youth with Exceptionalities on Parents and Families, Multicultural Issues: Accommodating Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, Age Considerations in Parent and Family Conferencing, Involvement with Nontraditional Parents and Families of Children with Exceptionalities, Listening to Parents and Family Members, Development of Trust in the Family - Professional Relation-ship, Initial Contact Conferences: Forming the Foundation for Success-ful Collaboration, Legal and Legislative Considerations, Training Parents and Family Members to Be Treatment and Intervention Agents, Progress Report Conferences, Unplanned Conferences, Group Conferences, and Resolving Conferences. Paperback, 488 pages, 1996 ISBN 0-89079-638-6
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