Overview
- Provides readers with evidence-based practices to help schools and communities partner with, support, and empower families to be decision-makers and advocates for their students with disabilities
- Equips readers with effective strategies that they can use to empower the families of the students with disabilities they serve
- Bridges research with practices through evidence-based models illustrating positive partnerships between families, schools, and communities
- Offers readers culturally responsive practices and global perspectives on serving young children and students with diverse backgrounds
Part of the book series: Advancing Inclusive and Special Education in the Asia-Pacific (AISEAP)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (13 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Understanding School, Family, and Community Partnerships
-
Front Matter
-
-
Evidence-Based Practices on Home-School Partnerships
-
Front Matter
-
-
Evidence-Based Practices on Community Involvement
-
Front Matter
-
-
Evidence-Based Practices in Other Parts of the World
-
Front Matter
-
Keywords
About this book
Along with the improvements in the U.S. since the enactment of its first special education law in 1975, other parts of the world are also making changes to their special education systems in terms of responding to the diverse needs of children and students with disabilities and their families. This book also shares research-based and effective practices from other countries. The studies presented employ both qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate family-school-community partnerships.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Lusa Lo is an Associate Professor of Special Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is also Director of the Special Education Program, which prepares graduate students to be special educators. Her research focuses on family‐school‐community partnerships and educational planning and practices for language minority students with disabilities, which has resulted in over 70 peer-reviewed publications, as well as over 100 national and international conferences. At the state level, Dr. Lo works closely with schools and communities to develop parent education programs, which enable them to actively engage with and support the families of children with disabilities and diverse backgrounds. All the training programs focus on educating parents regarding the special education process, how they can work with their children with disabilities at home, and how they can best collaborate with school professionals.
Dr. Yaoying Xu is a Professor at the Department of Counseling and Special Education, Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research interests and expertise focus on social aspects of children with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, as well as the impact of family empowerment through school‐community partnerships on children’s developmental and educational outcomes. She has published over 60 peer‐reviewed articles and book chapters on early intervention, family‐school collaborations, and community‐based practices, as well as over 100 conference presentations. Dr. Xu has also been a principal investigator for several federally funded projects.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Family, School, and Community Partnerships for Students with Disabilities
Editors: Lusa Lo, Yaoying Xu
Series Title: Advancing Inclusive and Special Education in the Asia-Pacific
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6307-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6306-1Published: 06 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6309-2Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-6307-8Published: 23 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2524-8219
Series E-ISSN: 2524-8227
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 177
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Disability Studies