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Communicating with Families

The importance of establishing positive partnerships between families and professionals in education has long been recognized. Parent involvement has been consistently related to a student’s cognitive development and academic achievement. We use the term partnerships to mean the collaboration, service integration, multidisciplinary teams, family or parent involvement, and, to some extent, family-centered services. We define partnerships also as mutually supportive interactions between families and professionals, focused on meeting the needs of children and families, and characterized by a sense of competence, commitment, equality, positive communication, respect, and trust (Dunst and Paget, 1991). Dunst and Paget list six similar characteristics of partnerships: mutual contributions, shared responsibility, desire to work together, loyalty and trust, full disclosure, and agreement that parents are the final decision makers. However, very often......

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