Promising practices connecting schools to families of children with special needs
By: edited by Diana B. Hiatt-Michael.
Contributors: Hiatt-Michael, Diana B.
Series: Family school community partnership issues; Family, school, community, partnership
Publisher: Information Age Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Children with disabilities -- Education -- United States.; Special education -- Parent participation -- United States.; Home and school -- United States.; Community and school -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: Connecting schools to families of children with special needs / Diana B. Hiatt-Michael; Historical antecedents, legal issues, and government policies related to family involvement for children with special needs / Leland L. Simmons; A national study of parent involvement in education of youth with disabilities / Lynn A. Newman; Family involvement in adapting curriculum across the lifespan for children with special needs / Belinda Dunnick Karge; Helping children with learning disabilities succeed: the family-school connection / Rosalyn Anstine-Templeton and Michelle A. Johnston; Schools and families of students with an emotional disturbance: allies and partners / Carl I. Fertman; Toward successful collaboration: voices from families of children with developmental delays and disabilities / Hwa Lee and Michaelene Ostrosky; School-family-community collaboration for deaf children / Pat Hulsebosch and Lynda R. Myers; Bridging the gaps between schools, students with psychiatric illness, and their families: a hospital-based classroom / Margie Buttignol ... [et al.].