Engaging and empowering families in secondary transition
Subtitle: a practicioner's guide
By: Donna Wandry and Amy M. Pleet, editors
Contributors: Council for Exceptional Children
Publisher: Council for Exceptional Children
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Arlington, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780865864450
Subjects: Young adults with disabilities; Handbooks, manuals; Services for; School-to-work transition; Parents of children with disabilities; Children with disabilities; Legal assistance to children; Disabled Children; Child Advocacy; Professional-Family Relations; Jeunes adultes handicapés; Guides, manuels; Services; Transition école-travail; Parents d'enfants handicapés; Enfants handicapés; Aide juridique aux enfants; Relations soignant-famille
Description: "[T]his guide includes tools for assessing families' and practitioners' engagement in practices that promote positive post-school outcomes for youth with disabilities. Engaging and Empowering Families in Secondary Transition: A Practitioner's Guide gives schools and agencies planning tools and practical strategies to foster family partnerships in five dimensions: collaborators in the IEP process; instructors in their youth's emergent independence; peer mentors; evaluators and decision-makers; and systems-change agents."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the role of families in secondary transition / Amy M. Pleet and Donna L. Wandry; title: Changing demographics / Vicki A. McGinley; title: Parents as collaborators: building partnerships with school- and community-based providers / Sharon deFur; title: Parents as instructors in their youths' emergent independence / Michael J. Ward; title: Parents as evaluators and decision makers / Cherie Takemoto and Cathy Healy; title: Parents as peer mentors / Suzanne Ripley; title: Parents as systems change agents / Mary E. Morningstar; title: Strategic engagement for parent partnerships / Donna L. Wandry and Amy M. Pleet.