Description:
The purpose of this course is to provide students with theory, general
principles, and procedures for fostering collaborative partnerships among
families, professionals, students, and other stakeholders that lead to
outcomes of individual and mutual empowerment. Guest speakers, in class
activities and discussions, and course readings and assignments will be
used to facilitate student understanding of research, recommended practices,
and family perspective concerning parent-professional partnerships.
The course is designed around three major components. The student objectives
related to these components include:
- To provide students with (a) historical and organizational foundations
related to family roles, and (b) a contemporary empowerment framework
for conceptualizing collaboration, in general, and family-professional
partnerships, specifically.
- To delineate a family systems theoretical orientation for conceptualizing
family-professional partnerships.
- To provide students with strategies for implementing seven levels
of family-professional partnerships, including: communicating among
reliable allies, meeting families' basic needs, referring and evaluating
for special education, individualizing for appropriate education, extending
learning inhome and community, attending and volunteering at school,
and advocating for systems improvement.
Resources:
Handouts:
The Adobe Acrobat viewer is freeware (i.e., may be downloaded, installed,
and used without cost and is available at Adobe
software's website) and is required to view PDF files.
syllabus (PDF document, 477 kb)
Texts:
- Simons, R. (1987). After the tears: Parents talk about raising
a child with a disability. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
- Turnbull, A.P. & Turnbull H.R. (2000). Families, professionals,
and exceptionality: A special partnership collaborating for empowerment
(3rd ed.). Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes
- A packet of articles and book chapters are available for check-out
through the Department of Special Education and the reserve desk at
the Marriot Library. The readings packet is also available online
to students currently enrolled at The University of Utah.
texts can be purchased at:
The University of Utah Bookstore
Main Campus bookstore located northwest of the Marriot Library
270 South 1500 East
SLC, Utah 84112
801-581-6326
Online text purchases:
- University
of Utah Bookstore online
- Amazon.com
- Barnes & Noble
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