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- Title: Involvement of Immigrant Chinese Canadian Mothers of Children with Disabilities.
- Author : Exceptional Children
- Release Date : January 22, 2004
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 216 KB
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Parent involvement has been an increasingly important topic in education. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997 reestablishes and enhances parent participation in eligibility and placement decisions. In Canada, education is under the provincial jurisdiction. Most provinces legally require parent participation in assessment or programming decisions (Smith & Foster, 1997). In the province of British Columbia (B.C. Ministry of Education, 2004) and the Individual Education Plan Order (B.C. Ministry of Education, 2000), part of the School Act, stipulate that parents of children with special needs be consulted regarding the children's education placement and program planning. There is a wide range of languages, cultures, and nationalities found in the schools in B.C. and this has created challenges for educators (Shapson, Ames, Painchaud, & Petrie, 1997). Twenty-five years ago, Philip Chinn noted that parents were an answer to educating the exceptional minority child. That is, parent participation can play an important role in designing educational programs for students with disabilities from culturally diverse backgrounds (Chinn, 1979). For example, minority parents can provide an understanding of cultural perspectives to mainstream educators (Harry & Kalyanpur, 1994). For example, minority parents can provide an understanding of cultural perspectives to mainstream educators (Harry & Kalyanpur, 1994). Such perspectives could enable teachers to make informed interpretation of a student's behavior. Yet, it has been noted that the participation of minority parents is far less than that of their mainstream counterparts (Harry, 1992;
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