Engaging and empowering families in secondary transition

By Donna Wandry, Amy Pleet

Subjects: Aide juridique aux enfants, Guides, manuels, Enfants handicapés, Services for, Child Advocacy, Transition école-travail, Jeunes adultes handicapés, Parents of children with disabilities, Children with disabilities, Legal assistance to children, Young adults with disabilities, Services, Parents d'enfants handicapés, Professional-Family Relations, Handbooks, manuals, Disabled Children, Relations soignant-famille, School-to-work transition

Description: "[T]his guide includes tools for assessing families' and practitioners' engagement in practices that promote positive post-school outcomes for youth with disabilities. Engaging and Empowering Families in Secondary Transition: A Practitioner's Guide gives schools and agencies planning tools and practical strategies to foster family partnerships in five dimensions: collaborators in the IEP process; instructors in their youth's emergent independence; peer mentors; evaluators and decision-makers; and systems-change agents."--