Debra L. Morrissette and Patrick J. Morrissette : Rethinking Parental Participation in Special
Education, 3(14) The article starts with the historical perspective of parental involvement in special education students. The child with disability is segregated and consider burden to the family. The institutionalization for severely disabled children considered as relief for the family members. From that point the parent involvement is more than a education decision maker of the student. The authors described various policies, which support the parental involvement in the education of special need students. PL94-142 is the major policies, which provide the parents a provision to play an important role in …show more content…
educational decision-making process of the student. It has included the effectiveness of the parent participation as well as the how much it is in effective present situation. The article points out the limitation of the parents for their limited or lack of participation of their child’s education are the parental time, responsibilities and energy. Some of the parents are there; they don’t want to take any responsibilities for their special need child’s education because of taking care of other family member’s needs. The article is concluded with the notion that parental involvement benefits all students, parents, and school personnel remains unsubstantiated and denies the uniqueness of individuals and can inadvertently contribute to unnecessary conflict within families and between parents and school personnel.
Kathleen M. Whitbread, Mary Beth Bruder Gina Fleming, Hay Jin Park- Collaboration in Special Education. Teaching Exceptional Children. Mar/Apr2007, Vol. 39 Issue 4, p6-14. 9p. The article detailed about the importance of collaboration in planning for the education of a student with special needs.
The article starts with a scenario of parent teacher conference, which has been proven the possible misunderstanding, miscommunication, and a lack of knowledge and skills that block the teacher-parent relationship and the child's educational opportunities as well. The article describes a project designed to support collaboration through training for both parents and professionals. This article analyzing about what the literature says about parent teacher collaboration, what are the important laws of special education, individualized education plan (IEP) and parents’ role in those process as well. Through this article authors advocating the educators should be aware about the importance of better collaboration to lead the students to be succeed in their life. Suggesting many ways to improve the collaboration as given training to parents and educators are the most effective way to make better collaboration. This article has given a clear picture of the training procedure to make more healthy relation between parents and professionals to bring fullest out put from the child. The article concludes with the analysis of parent satisfaction survey result, which shows the training curriculum is useful and procedures are …show more content…
acceptable.
Mary Sawyer - BRIDGES Connecting With Families to Facilitate and Enhance Involvement (Teaching Exceptional Children. Jan2015, Vol. 47 Issue 3, p172-179. 8p.)
The article starts with a story of teacher how to connect with families and succeed in his carrier.
This article dealing with how to improve the parent participation of their special need child and what is role of the teacher to enhance the parent participation. Parent involvement is the key word for the student’s success. This article picturing how can build a good relationship with families and what are the strategies can a teacher use to enhance the parent participation in their child education. The diversity of population in the classroom also described as a barrier to reach out the families. The article shows the importance of teacher effort to build a relationship to the families to lead the students to be succeeded. The purpose of this article is to given an outline of the framework BRIDGE that stand for Build, Recruit, Individualize,
Dialogue,
Generate, Empower, and Strengthen. To make the parent to involve in their child’s education, there should be a deliberated attempt has to make good relationship with the family is most important. The article given a clear out line to make a BRIDGE between school- family is really very impressive and resource to the special educators as well as the administrators of the school system.