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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Parent advocacy"”.
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Fostering Advocacy, Communication, Empowerment, and Support (FACES) for African American families of children with autism: a pilot study
… These disparities present a great need for parent advocacy strategies to combat barriers such as culturally insensitive service delivery, and strained parent-professional partnerships. In this sequential mixed methods study, I examined the effectiveness of a six-week parent training …
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Reconfiguring motherhood an autoethnography of ADHD, care, and knowing in the homeplace
… reflexivity support maternal adaptation and advocacy, while also exposing the private, often unseen aspects of Black maternal engagement that challenge deficit-focused views of involvement within schools and parent-advocacy models. The study adds to scholarship on Black motherhood, literacy, …
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Exploring Teachers' Beliefs about the Underrepresentation of Minority Students in the Gifted Program in a Mid-Sized Suburban School District in Georgia
… for determining giftedness, the lack of minority parental partnership between the home and school, and teachers' low expectations resulting in failure to recognize giftedness in minority students as reasons for underrepresentation. This researcher conducted a qualitative study with eight …
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Perceived training needs of special education teachers in California who were credentialed prior to September 1985 : how their skills compare with those required in the new California standards
… and inclusive education movements; increase in parent advocacy for including students with disabilities in general education classes; increases in student diversity in terms ofrace, language, income, exceptionality, and culture; and a trend toward heterogeneous grouping in special education …
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Giving a Voice to the Parent/Guardians/Caregivers of Students with Special Needs: Advocacy for Services
<p>Parents/Guardians/Caregivers of students with special needs are often at a loss as how to help their child be successful within the public school system. Communication is the key towards developing any form of path to success; however, the PGC of students with special needs are often limited, or …
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All Children Are Our Children
The purpose of the study was to talk to parents who “fight attitudes and perceptions that date back centuries and a school system whose resistance to change is unparalleled” (Fine, 1993, p. 692) and see how they persevere as they try to transform this system. Narrative inquiry, using …
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Understanding the Learning & Advocacy Needs of a Twice-Exceptional Student Through A Strengths-Based Lens: A Case Study in California
… and disabilities perplexes both educators and parents. Educators often use a deficit approach when working with these learners; new research calls for multi-dimensional, strengths-based approaches to engage these students. Strengths-based approaches draw upon student strengths, interests, and …
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The Lived Experiences of Parenting Children with Food Allergies: A Phenomenological Study
<p>This phenomenological study focuses on five mothers' experiences of the phenomenon of living with a diagnosed food allergy in the family. Attention is given to the contexts or situations that have typically influenced or affected their experiences, including the impact of the diagnoses, travel …