Working with parents and families of exceptional children and youth : techniques for successful conferencing and collaboration / Richard L. Simpson, Nancy A. Mundschenk.
Understanding and responding to the needs of parents and families -- Accommodating cultural, linguistic, and family-structure diversity -- Basic skills and strategies needed for successful conferencing and collaboration -- Development of trust in the family -- professional relationship -- Initial contact and information exchange conferences : forming the foundation for successful collaboration -- Expanding interventions : parents as treatment and intervention agents -- Progress monitoring conferences -- Unplanned conferences -- Resolving conflicts -- Parents and families of young children with exceptionalities -- Parents and families of elementary-ago children with exceptionalities -- Parents and families of youth and young adults with exceptionalities -- Appendixes : A. Initial interview -- B. Training parents and family members to be treatment and intervention agents -- C. Conflict resolution.
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