Beach Center Family & Professional Partnerships
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"Partnerships" refers to the ways families and service providers interact. Partnerships include relationships: (1) between families (including the person with a disability) and service providers; (2) among service providers themselves in a single agency; (3) within a system (e.g., the educational or health system), and (4) among or across different systems. The term “partnerships” stretches to fit all the common elements that researchers and practitioners refer to as "parent involvement," "coordination," "collaboration," and "service integration." Partnerships also occur in the context of "teams" - interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary teams serving individual families or persons with disabilities, or in interagency planning teams or councils working together to improve services at the community, state, or national level. We conceptualize Partnerships as having two components: relationship or interpersonal and structural or administrative.
Beach Center on Disability
Recent Submissions
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A modest proposal in four parts
(2011-12-27) -
Enhancing quality of life of families of children and youth with disabilities in the United States
(American Association on Mental Retardation., 2004) -
Dimensions of Family and Professional Partnerships: Constructive Guidelines for Collaboration
(Exceptional Children, 2004) -
Devolution, School/Community/Family Partnerships, and Inclusive Education
(Columbia University, 2002) -
Cross-cultural competency and special education: Perceptions and experiences of Korean parents of children with special needs.
(Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 2001) -
Boundaries in Family-Professional Relationships: Implications for Special Education
(Remedial and Special Education, 2004)