Advocating and Empowering Diverse Families of Students With Disabilities Through Meaningful Engagement

Advocating and Empowering Diverse Families of Students With Disabilities Through Meaningful Engagement

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Release Date: August, 2023|Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 378
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8651-1
ISBN13: 9781668486511|ISBN10: 1668486512|EISBN13: 9781668486528
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Family engagement varies in education literature and often includes collaboration, involvement, and partnership. The term “family in schools” has changed to include extended family members such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins, and others who interact with the child, such as step-parents, caregivers, and neighbors. Family engagement is a practice, an interactive process, and a goal-oriented relationship involving professionals and families, allowing families to share their perspectives about their children, their learning, and their customs to improve their children's education.

Advocating and Empowering Diverse Families of Students With Disabilities Through Meaningful Engagement provides the knowledge, skills, and dispositions for effective engagements of all families with children in special education. With recent changes in student population diversity among those enrolling in special education, the diversity of family compositions in the school system is also evolving. Covering topics such as laws and legal infrastructure, special education, and family engagement, this book is ideal for classroom teachers, administrators, researchers, and students in education programs.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Barriers in Family Engagement
  • Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Families
  • Communication Strategies for Effective Family Engagement
  • Disproportionality
  • Engaging Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families
  • Family Engagement
  • Laws and Legal Infrastructure
  • Special Education
  • Strategies to Engage Families Face to Face and Online
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Millicent Musyoka is an associate professor in the Department of Deaf Studies & Deaf Education at Lamar University. She has a Ph. D. in Deaf Education from Gallaudet University. Dr. Musyoka was a leader in deaf education in Kenya, where she worked as the lead curriculum specialist in deaf education at the Kenya Institute of Education, Curriculum and Research Center. Currently, she teaches in the masters and doctoral programs at Lamar University. Her research interests are in the areas of early language and literacy development of deaf children, deaf with multiple disabilities, multicultural/multilingual education, family collaboration, and teacher training. Her recent edited book is on Deaf education and challenges of bilingual/multilingual students. Her teaching expertise is in working with deaf students and families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. She is currently the coordinator for Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars, Lamar University Chapter.
Guofeng Shen, Ph.D. Candidate, BCBA, is currently in the final stages of her Ph.D., and serves as a research and teaching assistant in the School of Special Education at the University of Northern Colorado. Formerly a special education teacher in the public school system, she now practices as a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) across clinic, home, and school environments. Her research interests encompass Applied Behavior Analysis, family professional partnership, a focus on culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse students and families, and teacher education and preparation. At the University of Northern Colorado, she has both led and co-taught numerous courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in special education and applied behavior analysis. She contributed by presenting at national and international conferences and by publishing in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters.
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