Advocating and Empowering Diverse Families of Students With Disabilities Through Meaningful Engagement

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.