Download or read book Empowering Latino Parents of Students with Disabilities to Participate in IEPs written by Myrna Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this project is to develop low cost, easily accessible educational parent workshops for Spanish-speaking parents of students with disabilities, in order to empower them become better advocates and participate more actively in the development of the Individualized Educational Program (IEP) and in the overall education of their children. Special education laws mandate that parents be involved in the development of IEPs. In addition, all research indicates that parent involvement is the pivotal to student success. This project focuses on educating Spanish-speaking families about special education in the U.S., the IEP process, parental rights, and ways in which to establish positive relationships with key school personnel in order to promote student success. Topics such as IEP timelines, qualifying disability categories, evaluation and assessments, special factors, related services, and statewide assessment accommodations are included in the video workshops.
Download or read book Promising Practices To Empower Culturally And Linguistically Diverse Families Of Children With Disabilities written by Lusa Lo and published by IAP. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (sponsored by the Family School Community Partnership Issues SIG) Promising Practices to Empower Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families of Children with Disabilities offers research-supported school practices to empower families from diverse cultural backgrounds to make informed decisions regarding their children with diverse disabilities. In order to insure that every child is receiving the most appropriate educational program, these practices should be included in teacher and administrator preparation program throughout every county, state, and province. Every site administrator, school counselor and special education teacher should have a copy of this book at one’s fingertips for ready reference. Suggested practices include activities for parent organizing, parent education, ways to provide co-mentoring of families, and formal support at Individualized Education Program meetings.
Download or read book Latino Parent Training written by Patricia Rosas and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this project was to develop parent workshops for Spanish speaking parents of students in Special Education. A review of the research indicates that Spanish speaking parents do not actively participate in the Individual Education Plans (IEP) of their children. This project focused on the development of parent workshops developed in Spanish for presentation to parents and English for the purposes of this project. The workshops were designed to inform parents about the IEP process, their right to question the process and solicit help from a Spanish speaking Special Education Teacher. The workshops developed for this project will be helpful in informing and empowering Spanish speaking parents to participate in their students' IEP process because they will have been given the questions to ask, the language to use and the understanding that it is their right to pursue the very best education for their children.
Download or read book Engaging and Empowering Families in Secondary Transition written by Donna L. Wandry, PHD and published by Council For Exceptional Children. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded follow-up to a CEC bestseller, this 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.
Download or read book Empowering Latino Parents and Students Through School home Partnerships written by Victor Serrato and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this study was to understand the challenges that Latino students and their parents face through their participation in and transactions with educational school systems. In addition, the study focused concepts related to building positive home-school connections between teachers, parents and community. Suggestions for and implementing strategies are provided. Information and suggestions on how schools can provide opportunities for Latino parents to gain access to important school related resources are considered. This project informs local educational agencies about considerations for school policies and procedures that are designed to foster the creation of meaningful school-to-home partnerships. A total of 128 parent involvement surveys were analyzed for this research. Each survey consisted of 15 questions carefully selected to elicit responses regarding Latino parents' perception of the schools' attempts to involve parents in their children's schooling, as well as their own active involvement in the school system. According to the findings, schools in this study have applied many of the research-based practices for empowering Latino parents, including formally welcoming parents, translating documents into Spanish, encouraging parents to contribute their thoughts and opinions, and providing opportunities for parents to volunteer in schools. Parents in this study indicated desire to get involved in their children's education. The data gathered from parent surveys along with research collection was used to inform the creation of the toolkit found in the appendix.
Download or read book Advocating and Empowering Diverse Families of Students With Disabilities Through Meaningful Engagement written by Musyoka, Millicent M. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family engagement varies in education literature and often includes collaboration, involvement, and partnership. The term “family in schools” has changed to include extended family members such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins, and others who interact with the child, such as step-parents, caregivers, and neighbors. Family engagement is a practice, an interactive process, and a goal-oriented relationship involving professionals and families, allowing families to share their perspectives about their children, their learning, and their customs to improve their children's education. Advocating and Empowering Diverse Families of Students With Disabilities Through Meaningful Engagement provides the knowledge, skills, and dispositions for effective engagements of all families with children in special education. With recent changes in student population diversity among those enrolling in special education, the diversity of family compositions in the school system is also evolving. Covering topics such as laws and legal infrastructure, special education, and family engagement, this book is ideal for classroom teachers, administrators, researchers, and students in education programs.
Download or read book Enhancing the Knowledge and Involvement of Hispanic Families of Children with Disabilities Through Specifically Designed Family Workshops written by Mayra Ruiz Camacho and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-seven parents or primary caregivers of students receiving special education services in three school districts in central Florida participated in the study. Before and after the workshops, participants completed a three-part survey in which they gave demographic information, responded to 50 multiple choice test questions related to the IEP process, and answered 10 open-ended questions related to their involvement in their children's education. Participants also completed an evaluation at each of the workshops indicating which of the workshop's components influenced their decision to participate. Finally, participants' children's teachers completed the Parent/Family Involvement Index (P/FII) before and after participating in the workshops. The P/FII is a measure of parent involvement in their children's special education services as perceived by their children's teachers. Following data collection, quantitative statistical analysis was completed using descriptive statistics to examine if TENFEE's components supported the participation of the targeted population to the workshops. A Paired Sample t-test was calculated to evaluate any differences in participants' IEP knowledge survey test scores before and after the workshops as well as differences in teachers' P/FII scores before and after the workshops. Multiple Regressions were conducted to determine if participants' demographic characteristics influenced IEP knowledge survey test scores and/or P/FII scores.
Download or read book Empowering Latino Parents Advocating for Elementary Aged Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder ASD written by Crystal Maria Perez and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined the experiences that Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Latino parents of children with Autism have had in working with school systems. The sample consisted of 3 families with children in grades kindergarten through third grade. The parents interviewed in all families were mothers of male children with Autism. This case study used narrative research methods to examine the personal stories of Latino parents of elementary age students with ASD who are currently attending schools in urban communities predominantly composed of CLD families. Parents participated in two individual interviews and a platica, which were all composed of a structured series of questions. The data collected through these interviews and platica helped create a story for each participant. Additionally, educational documents acquired through the families were reviewed and analyzed. There were numerous factors found impacting the experiences of these Latina mothers. This study exposed that special education professionals need to improve the quality, consistency, and tactful approaches in collaboration with CLD Latino families. By investigating the perspectives and experiences these Latina mothers had, this aimed to describe specific occasions in which these parents felt marginalized and disengaged. Some of these factors included cultural differences, language barriers, available parent participation, lack of advocacy skills, and parent confidence level.
Download or read book Facilitating Spanish Speaking Parent Participation During the IEP Meeting written by Betsy Orozco and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In California, numerous Hispanic monolingual families with children who qualify for Special Education services experience various types of barriers that prevent meaningful participation in their children's education and IEP development. Barriers include linguistic differences, lack of accurate and accessible information that results in an incomplete understanding of the U.S. education system, poor quality of interpreters, as well as a mismatch between parent culturally-based views of disability and the academically based views of disability by American educators. As a means of identifying any gaps between theory and practice, the researcher specifically observed the experiences of Hispanic monolingual families during the IEP process. The research posits included: (a) Identify how educators can facilitate parental involvement of Hispanic monolingual families in the IEP process; (b) Identify how the existing IEP structures might hinder Hispanic monolingual families' participation in the IEP process and steps educators can take to facilitate such participation; and (c) Examine what Hispanic monolingual families have experienced in the past during the IEP meeting. These questions were addressed and answered through the design and production of a Spanish parent booklet by the author who targeted these specific goals for the support of Hispanic monolingual families. The project Spanish pamphlet describes various aspects of the IEP process, an introduction to special education disability definitions, the summary of parent procedural safeguards, description of the student study team, and education assessment, the IEP team members, the referral process and the evaluation team, and important resources. The development of the project provided needed information and resources to Hispanic parents in their native language.
Download or read book Voices From Around the IEP Table written by Karrin Lukacs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a group meets to discuss a student’s Individualized Education Program (IEP), they are called a team, but they rarely understand the perspectives of the people with whom they are sitting at the table. This is especially true when cultural and linguistic diversity is part of the equation. This unique book explores the individual perspectives of IEP meeting participants who work with students who are culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD). Authors interviewed a principal, a general education teacher, a special education teacher, a teacher of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), an educational advocate, a disability rights attorney, a parent, a translator, a school psychologist, a specialist, a transition services specialist, and a guidance counselor. Their experiences provide critical insight for those seeking to realize the potential of these sometimes marginalized students. Interviews examined the dynamics of home-school communication, IEP meetings, and cross-cultural interactions. The perspectives shared in this book relate to known best practices and also provide practical suggestions for improving the experiences of teams serving the CLD population.
Download or read book Individual Education Program Guide for Parents in Spanish written by Belinda Aurora Aguirre and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents play an integral role in special education. Federal law establishes numerous protections for parents of students with disabilities throughout the special education processes that take place to ensure students’ needs are individually met. One such guarantee is the right for parents to be equal partners throughout special education decision making, namely the IEP process. The recent increase in the number of students identified as having a disability has resulted in a growing demand for parental resources about the manner in which they can be involved in special education processes. Special education laws and policies are often complex and difficult to navigate, especially for parents with no prior experience with the special education system. Monolingual parents face barriers that often lead to dissatisfaction with decision making outcomes regarding their child’s education. Spanish speaking families face additional barriers that hinder their ability to participate in Special education process. This project addresses the need for resources available in Spanish about the IEP process. The result of this project was the creation of an informational tool entitled Individual Education Program Guide for Parents in Spanish.
Download or read book Involving Latino Families in Schools written by Concha Delgado Gaitan and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2004-03-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anyone involved in preservice training for future and present classroom teachers should read this book. Both the content and context of the book are practical, timely, and necessary as our country and classrooms become more diverse." Michele Dean, Principal Montalvo Elementary School, Ventura, CA Raise school attendance, reduce dropout rates, and improve academic performance of Latino students! Often marginalized by poverty, linguistic isolation, or prejudice, Latino students face many academic obstacles. And while research has shown that parental involvement plays a key role in academic achievement, most schools have failed to modify their parent involvement programs to address social and cultural realities of Latino families. Involving Latino Families in Schools provides tools and strategies for including Latino parents in developing sustained academic improvement. Sharing numerous first person success stories, author Concha Delgado Gaitan stresses three conditions of increased parental participation: connecting to families, sharing information with parents, and supporting continued parental involvement. Offering easily applied techniques for cultivating communication, this practical handbook examines Latino families and their educational aspirations for their children The communication systems needed between schools and Latino families How Latino families can assist their children at home Techniques to foster Latino parent involvement How to organize schoolwide parent involvement programs Through suggested activities, case examples, and vignettes, the author provides insights and instruction for planning, designing, and implementing parental participation programs that enhance the classroom curriculum and effectively engage Latino students. Designed primarily for elementary and secondary school principals and teachers, this innovative text is also an indispensable resource for district-level administrators.
Download or read book Hispanic Family Involvement in Special Education written by Emiliano C. Ayala and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Does Compliance Matter in Special Education written by Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks a question that many educators may think, but won’t say out loud: Does compliance with IDEA legislation matter? The author acknowledges that, while compliance with IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) is important, it can also be an administrative burden that detracts from practitioners’ capacity to adequately serve students with disabilities. Using data collected from three suburban school districts, Voulgarides helps us to understand how compliance with IDEA intersects with decades of evidence of racial inequities in student outcomes. This timely and thought-provoking book unpacks the civil rights history of IDEA, examines the impact of its procedural focus on educational practice, and questions why racial inequities in special education persist despite good intentions by policymakers, educators, and school personnel. Book Features: Uses empirical evidence to examine the common assumption that compliance with IDEA leads to educational equity. Focuses on the different dimensions of the equity concern that lie at the intersection between race, disability, and educational policy. Challenges practitioners to think about the roles they play in both the production and the disruption of educational inequities.
Download or read book Hispanic Parents and the Special Education Process written by Ginalyn Arredondo and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this culminating project is to develop a workshop that meets the needs of Hispanic parents who have at least one child in special education. The intended culminating project is a PowerPoint presentation which presents special education services in a detailed and easy to understand manner geared towards parents of students in special education and school staff. The PowerPoint presentation elaborates on the description of each special education service, the various professionals who determine the need for the service, the student who benefits from the service, and how the service goes into effect. The information included on the PowerPoint slides was retrieved from the California Department of Education website. Research shows that Hispanic parents benefit to a great extent from special education informational sessions which are designed in a supportive manner (Gershwin, Milian, & Lopez, 2009). Hispanic families have reported receiving emotional support from the Hispanic group and benefited from having v access to critical sources of information (Gershwin, Milian, & Lopez, 2009). Similar research with culturally and linguistically diverse groups has reported stronger and more effective special education advocacy resulting from parents attaining greater knowledge of parental rights, IEP content, and interacting with other parents of children with disabilities (Trainor, 2010). Providing opportunities for Hispanic parents to develop essential resources, in conjunction with being lead by other individuals in their native language strengthens overall resources parents bring with them to their partnership with school professionals (Bourdieu, 1986).
Download or read book Parental Involvement written by George R. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collaboration with Parents and Families of Children and Youth with Exceptionalities written by Marvin J. Fine and published by Pro-Ed. This book was released on 2000 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
