Partnering with Parents of Special Needs Students: Barriers to Collaboration

Authors

Patti Nietsch
Christine Siegel, Fairfield UniversityFollow
Cindy Keefe
Krista Horn

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2008

Abstract

Meetings that are difficult for parents may occur in many contexts (e.g., report card conferences, prereferral intervention teams, special education eligibility teams), and may produce powerful emotions. Some may even include lawyers or advocates with tape-recorded proceedings, resulting in defensiveness on the part of both parents and educators. In this article, the authors examine historical, legal, financial, and interpersonal factors that may contribute to these uncomfortable and at times adversarial encounters between parents of students with special needs and the school system.

Comments

Copyright 2008 Copyright National Association of School Psychologists

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Publication Title

Communique

Repository Citation

Nietsch, Patti; Siegel, Christine; Keefe, Cindy; and Horn, Krista, "Partnering with Parents of Special Needs Students: Barriers to Collaboration" (2008). School of Education and Human Development Faculty Publications. 159.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/education-facultypubs/159

Published Citation

Nietsch, P., Siegel, C., Keefe, C., & Horn, K. (2008). Partnering with Parents of Special Needs Students: Barriers to Collaboration. Communique, 37(1), 1-16.