Educating Children with Disabilities

Educating Children with Disabilities

What are three things you believe teachers can and should do when working with the parents and families of children with disabilities?

What added challenges would you anticipate if these children are also of racial, cultural, or linguistic minorities?

This is access to the book the information for the discussion board is in purple Chapters 3 and 4

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People living with disabilities have unique challenges they face every day. Teachers and parents need to work together to navigate help children with disabilities live fulfilled lives, especially those from minority groups. When working with parents whose children have disabilities, teachers should take up the role of an educator to the parent (Cook, Klein & Chen, 2015). Since the teacher is a specialist in the field, he or she has knowledge that most parents lack yet is essential if they are to understand their children. Teachers should try their best to provide reading materials, references of websites, details of organizations and so forth, which can help parents to access necessary information. When…

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