Improving Family Involvement in Special Education| If you would like to know more about the research referenced in this issue, you can contact the following individuals and organizations by postal mail, telephone, or e-mail, or by using the URLs provided. Research Connections was prepared with funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, under Contract No. ED-99-CO-0026. It is in the public domain and may be freely reproduced and disseminated. The opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the positions or policies of OSEP or the Department of Education. Resource: Federal Interagency Coordinating Council
The FICC web site at www.fed-icc.org provides information for parents to help ensure that services for young children who are served under IDEA are of the highest quality. A founding precept of the FICC is involving family members at all levels of policy and service delivery planning, development, implementation, and evaluation.
| ContactsSue Abderholden & Paula GoldbergParent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights (PACER Center) 8161 Normandale Blvd. Minneapolis, MN 55437 952-838-9000 www.pacer.org
Carl Dunst
Beth Harry
Trina Osher
Suzanne Ripley
Carolyn Romano
George Singer
ResourcesCho, S., & Singer, G. (in press). The adaptation of Korean immigrant parents to their children with disabilities. Topics in Early Childhood Education.Dunst, C. (2001). Participation of young children with disabilities in community learning activities. In M. Guralnick (Ed.), Early childhood inclusion: Focus on change (pp. 307-333). Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company. Dunst, C., Hamby, D., Trivette, C., Raab, M., & Bruder, M. (2000). Everyday family and community life and children's naturally occurring learning opportunities. Journal of Early Intervention, 23(3), 151-164. Harry, B., Kalyanpur, M., & Day, M. (1999). Building cultural reciprocity with families. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company. Harry, B., Rueda, R., & Kalyanpur, M. (1999). Cultural reciprocity in sociocultural perspective: Adapting the normalization principle for family collaboration. Exceptional Children 66(1), 123-136. Landau, J., Romano, C., & Vohs, J. (1999). Every single student: A PEER resource manual on standards-based education and students with disabilities. Boston, MA: Federation for Children with Special Needs. [Download from www.fcsn.org] Santarelli, G., Denny, M., Singer, J., & Singer, G. (in press). "With my eyes I was telling her 'No'": The experiences of fifteen Latino families in an NICU. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (1999). Parent involvement in educating children with disabilities: Theory and practice. In the Twenty-first Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the IDEA. Washington, DC: Author.
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