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Parent Involvement

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Early Intervention Studies for Young Children with Special Needs

Part of the book series: Rehabilitation Education ((RE))

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Parents have a key role in early intervention for their infants with special needs. There are several reasons for this. First, without active involvement of parents the developmental progress made by children will typically be reduced. Second, unless the intervention has some impact on parents themselves it is unlikely that gains which the children make will be maintained in the long term (Guralnick and Bennett, 1987). Finally, since the improvement of family functioning as a whole is a goal of early intervention, the needs of parents for support and guidance must be a major consideration (Fewell and Vadasy, 1986).

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  1. Education Department, University of Waikato, Private Bag, Hamilton, New Zealand

    David M. Mitchell

  2. Rehabilitation Studies Programme, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N. W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Roy I. Brown

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Hornby, G. (1991). Parent Involvement. In: Mitchell, D.M., Brown, R.I. (eds) Early Intervention Studies for Young Children with Special Needs. Rehabilitation Education. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3292-1_8

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