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- Title: Collaboration with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families: Ideal Versus Reality (Report)
- Author : Exceptional Children
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 245 KB
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Family participation is one of the central tenets of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA). Implementation of this mandate is important to all families of children with disabilities. There are three main areas of concern, however, regarding the participation of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) families. First, children of African American, Latino, and Native American groups represent a disproportionately large percentage of certain disability categories and a disproportionately small percentage of gifted programs (Donovan & Cross, 2002; Ford, Grantham, & Whiting, 2008; U.S. Department of Education, 2007). An understanding of parents' views of and roles in the placement process should be an integral aspect of professional preparation and professional practice. Second, our nation's history of exclusion and marginalization of CLD groups continues to present the education system with the challenge of historically embedded prejudices that are reinforced when children from such groups have the further characterization of disability (Artiles, 2003; McHatton & Correa, 2005). Third, because the concept of disability is defined differently across cultures (Fadiman, 1997; Kalyanpur & Harry, 1999; Lo, 2005), the potential for cross-cultural miscommunication is extremely high when service providers' cultural frameworks differ from those of the families they serve. The purposes of this review are three-fold: (a) to identify the key requirements for collaborative relationships between professionals and CLD families, (b) to examine the nature of actual collaboration with CLD families of children with disabilities, and (c) to provide recommendations regarding improving such collaboration.
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