Parental Involvment [electronic resource] / Jeanne Mendoza and Others.

This document presents one module in a set of training resources for trainers to use with parents and/or professionals serving children with disabilities; focus is on parental involvement. The modules stress content and activities that build skills and offer resources to promote parent-professional...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author: Mendoza, Jeanne
Corporate Author: California. Special Education Division
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1988.
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Summary:This document presents one module in a set of training resources for trainers to use with parents and/or professionals serving children with disabilities; focus is on parental involvement. The modules stress content and activities that build skills and offer resources to promote parent-professional collaboration. Each module takes about 2 hours to deliver. The module guide has eight sections: a publicity flyer, topic narrative, overview, trainer agenda, activities, summary, bibliography, and evaluation. Introductory information explains how to use the modules including conducting a needs assessment, planning the training, selecting the training module, implementation, evaluation, and followup. Objectives of this module are: (1) describe the history of parental involvement as it relates to children with disabilities, (2) identify and understand the many roles of parental involvement, (3) develop a knowledge of the various stages of individualized programs or plans and identify ways parents can be involved in each stage, (4) analyze the role and responsibility of a case manager, (5) evaluate skills that are necessary for the many roles of parental involvement, and (6) develop a goal that leads to skill building in order to be more effectively involved. A bibliography identifies 17 books, magazines, or other resources. (DB)
Item Description:ERIC Document Number: ED315927.
Availability: Resources in Special Education, 900 J St., Sacramento, CA 95814-2703 ($7.00).
ERIC Note: For related documents, see EC 222 038-052.
Physical Description:46 p.
Audience:Practitioners.