Identify five barriers to parental participation in the IEP Process. As an educator, how would you try to address each of these in practice?
What will be an ideal response?
• Time constraints
• Intimidation
• Lack of knowledge of the educational system
• Cultural differences
• Relationships with educators (feeling welcomed and comfortable)
• Guilt and fear of being judged
• Anxiety
• Stigma of special education
• Financial, educational, and emotional resources at the disposal of the family
• Trust
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A) Can help adults know how to be responsive to that child B) Can create a self-fulfilling prophecy C) Can help children trust in themselves D) Is known as the cereal method
Time and energy zappers, in regard to time management, include all of the following except:
a. Unnecessary phone calls. b. Two hours of focused effort in the math lab. c. Mindless television watching. d. Inability to say "no"
Culture
A) Is something that only ethnic people have B) Is something that caregivers do not need to pay attention to C) Is invisible and effects everything that we do D) Should be melted into other cultures
Halpern (1985; 1993) noted that, in addition to employment, school leavers need to be secure in all of the following domains for a satisfactory quality of life EXCEPT:
A) physical and material well-being. B) performance of adult roles. C) personal fulfillment. D) intellectual achievement.