Families, Professionals, and Exceptionality: A Special Partnership

by Ann Turnbull; H. Rutherford Turnbull

• ISBN13: 9780135685518
• ISBN10: 0135685516
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference

Summary

The book presents comprehensive, data-based, and conceptually consistent approaches for families and professionals to collaborate for empowerment. This newly revised book focuses on family-professional empowerment, offers a wealth of concrete, and time- tested strategies for building reliable alliances between families and educators, and is based on the belief that the most rewarding of living one's personal and professional life is through collaboration for empowerment.

Table of Contents

Historical and Current of Families and Parents	p. 2
Schools As Systems: The Context for Family-Professional Collaboration	p. 14
Empowerment	p. 34
Building Reliable Alliances	p. 52
Family Characteristics	p. 78
Family Interaction	p. 94
Family Functions	p. 114
Family Life Cycle	p. 132
Communicating Among Reliable Allies	p. 151
Meeting Families' Basic Needs	p. 176
Referring and Evaluating for Special Education	p. 198
Individualizing for Appropriate Education	p. 224
Extending Learning into Home and Community	p. 250
Attending and Volunteering at School	p. 274
Advocating for Systems Improvement	p. 292
Appendix A: Names and Addresses	p. 315
Appendix B: Conversation Guide	p. 321
References	p. 327
Reprint Acknowledgments	p. 359
Index	p. 365
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