Le programme FADéPI et l'implication parentale dans la démarche du plan d'intervention

In the province of Quebec, children are the focal point of their own education. Teachers and professionals surrounding the student are called upon to collaborate throughout the her or his academic experience in order to help her or him reach their full potential. This collaborative dynamic is even more so essential when it comes to students with a disabilities or for whom educational success is not always obvious. The basic education regulation for preschool, elementary and secondary education in Quebec (Gouvernement du Québec, 2020a) requires that information be provided at least once a month to parents of children with different needs. The purpose of shared information is to encourage collaboration between parents and the school. Unfortunately, this collaboration is not always efficient and many factors hinder a fruitful relationship between the student’s school and family (Bouchard, St-Amant et al., 2000 and Kalubi and Lesieux, 2006). In a school environment, the individualized education program (IEP) is a recognized tool for helping the because students with different needs, it stimulates, among other things, collaboration between the school and the family and requires parent involvement (Government of Quebec, 2004). Actually an IEP is a process which takes part of a dynamic and continuous IEP life cycle (Myara, 2017, p.52)”, throughout a school-family collaboration allowing one to identify and respond to students different needs. This research aims to identify the different  forms and modes of school-family collaboration that exist between IEP team members and parents during an IEP life cycle of and determine whether or not the training and support program for IEP development of IEPs (TSIEP) Program allows parents to become more involved. In our method, we adopted a mixed research approach. This was done with the participation of five school resource members and two parents of students with different needs. Data was collected through the analysis of IEPs documents, questionnaires and inventories. The results seems to reveal that although parents usually attend IEP meetings, they do not always arrive as prepared as the school counselors would like. Additionally, although the literature argues that collaboration is essential to a student's educational success, it does not always seem easy to achieve it. However, there are various forms, modes, levels and periods of collaboration during the IEP process, which vary according to the degree of the different relationships, the students competencies and the complexity of her or his needs. As for the impact of the FADéPI program on parental involvement, it seems on the one hand that it could facilitate parental participation and involvement in different ways. However, this participation would not necessarily be proactive and would not result from a true partnership (Bouchard et al., 1996 and Deslandes, 1999), since despite the desire to achieve a common goal and mutual trust, it would not seem there is a real search for consensus in decision-making or even a reciprocal recognition of expertise which would make it possible to create an equal relationship between the participants. On the other hand, we noticed that access to an online IEP template or model, which documents observable, measurable goals, highlights students progress and provides parents with the opportunity to communicate in synchronous or asynchronous mode, promotes parents' knowledge of their child's IEP and facilitates communication.

Keyphrases: family-school collaboration, parental involvement, individualized plan, student achievement, disabled students or those with social maladjustments or learning disabilities