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Talking to families: listening to families
- Editors:
- CARPENTER Barry, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Sunfield
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- loose leaf
- Place of publication:
- Clent
This collection of 11 papers looks at the development of children with learning disabilities. It looks at what makes effective intervention in ensuring that families are confident and expert partners in their child’s development. The collection explores the personal and emotional experiences of disability within families, the unique interpersonal relationships developed between parents and professionals and highlight barriers which could impede these relationships. Among topics discussed are the development of critical frameworks for families of children with disabilities, shifting the focus from parent to family partnerships, sustaining the family by meeting their needs, the case for early intervention as a first step to social inclusion, the importance of fatherhood, family-centred training, marketing in special education and more family-centred approaches, in general.
Early intervention and identification: finding the family
- Author:
- CARPENTER Barry
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 11(3), September 1997, pp.173-182.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Recent legislation, both in the UK and abroad, has underlined the need for strong interdisciplinary approaches to meet the diversity of special educational needs that exist in our child population. This multidisciplinary approach necessitates a change of focus. It recognises the parent, with their child, as central, implicit and fundamental to the early intervention team, and endorses their right to request appropriate access to services. Discusses how this change in approach to families of children with special educational needs will challenge some professionals and demand a radical reappraisal of the structure of their role and their style of delivery of early intervention.