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This chapter concentrates on professionals working in education systems, mainly schools and kindergartens that provide. The special education school is an important system for students with disabilities, as it has the capacity to respond to the needs of both the child with disability and the parents, on an ecological level (i.e., addressing all of their contextual elements, such as culture, community, and environmental conditions) and on a systemic level (special education schools concentrate on the individual child’s needs, rather than on groups or the entire class). In addition, schools function as a primary framework for early prevention. This chapter uses an example of a disability from the field of mental health.

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Manor-Binyamini, I. (2014). School Professionals and Parents of Children with Disabilities. In: School-Parent Collaborations in Indigenous Communities. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8984-9_3

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