Families, Professionals, and Exceptionality: Positive Outcomes Through Partnerships and Trust, Pearson Etext with Loose-Leaf Version -- Access Card Pa

From the best-known authors in the field of family and professional collaboration—Families, Professionals, and Exceptionality: Positive Outcomes Through Partnerships and Trust is a practical look at how teachers and families can empower, collaborate, and advocate for children with special needs. In this book, the authors enter the lives and tell the stories of families they consider “forces for the disability cause,” and “exemplars of all that is good, decent, generous, steadfast, and optimistic.” Here readers see how lasting partnerships can be formed between members of families and professionals in special and general education. The authors, widely recognized authorities in the field of family and professional collaboration, present strong depictions of family systems theory, the history and current status of policy, and the principles of partnership and their application by teachers and other professionals. Included is invaluable practical advice for educators—and true ways to apply these principles on the job.

Features new to this edition include:

• NEW! Six families are featured, rather than four.
• NEW! A Marine Corps family is highlighted.
• NEW! An increased emphasis on the older individual with a disability and the role families continue to play in their lives.
• NEW! A family’s entire life span is portrayed, from preschool and kindergarten through adulthood.
• NEW! An emphasis on cultural diversity includes coverage of an African American family, a Hispanic American family, and four white families, one of which is a single parent family.
• NEW! More disabilities are portrayed than in previous editions, including coverage of students with physical, intellectual, and other developmental disabilities, and multiple disabilities.

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From the best-known authors in the field of family and professional collaboration—here is a practical look at how teachers and families can empower, collaborate, and advocate for children with special needs. In this book, the authors enter the lives and tell the stories of families they consider “forces for the disability cause,” and “exemplars of all that is good, decent, generous, steadfast, and optimistic.” In Families, Professionals, and Exceptionality readers see how lasting partnerships can be formed between members of families and professionals in special and general education. The authors, widely recognized authorities in the field of family and professional collaboration, present strong depictions of family systems theory, the history and current status of policy, and the principles of partnership and their application by teachers and other professionals. Included is invaluable practical advice for educators—and true ways to apply these principles on the job.

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Ann Turnbull is co-author of Exceptional Lives: Special Education in Today’s Schools, Seventh Edition, and of more than 200 other publications about disability, professional-parent partnerships, and family quality of life.

Rud Turnbull is also a co-author of Exceptional Lives, and of more than 200 other publications about disability policy, special education law, and the effect on policy on families and individuals affected by disability.

Elizabeth Erwin is a co-author of books and articles about parent-professional partnerships and evidence-based implementation of special education policies, especially related to families and individualized, inclusive education of students with disabilities.

Leslie Soodak is a co-author of books and articles about parent-professional partnerships and evidence-based implementation of special education policies, especially related to families and individualized, inclusive education of students with disabilities.

Karrie Shogren recently graduated from The University of Kansas, and until taking her present position as assistant professor at The University of Illinois, was assistant professor of special education at The University of Texas at Austin.

PART I            The Family Systems Perspective

Chapter 1            Family Characteristics 

Chapter 2            Family Interaction 

Chapter 3            Family Functions

Chapter 4            Family Life Cycle

PART II           History and Public Policy Related to Partnerships

Chapter 5            Historical and Current Roles of Parents and Families

Chapter 6            Policies and Family and Professional Partnerships

PART III           Strategies and Processes for Partnerships and Desired Outcomes

Chapter 7            Seven Principles of Partnerships and Trust

Chapter 8            Families as Partners in Communication and Collaboration

Chapter 9            Families as Partners in Evaluating a Student

Chapter 10          Families as Partners in Developing Individualized Plans

Chapter 11          Meeting Families’ Basic Needs

Chapter 12          Professionals and Families as Partners for Student Outcomes

References 

Name Index Subject Index