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Partners in School: An Example of Care Coordination to Ensure Consistency of Evidence-Based Practices Across Home and School for Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 2004) and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015) mandate that families participate in shared decision-making with schools. For youth who receive special education services, such as those who have ASD, having parents and teachers aligned in their practices is even more crucial. Unfortunately, consistency of evidence-based practices (EBP) across home and school is rarely experienced. This chapter describes the development of Partners in School, an example of coordinating care between home and school settings for youth with ASD. The goal of Partners in School is to ensure that parents and teachers are implementing the same EBPs in the same way (i.e., consistently). It draws from the literature on school consultation, business negotiations, and health communication/shared decision-making. The scientific literature is merged with the perspectives of parents and teachers of elementary students with ASD from a large urban school district. The chapter begins by anchoring this approach on the empirical evidence for family–school partnerships, and then concludes by describing the implications of Partners in School for care coordination.

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  1. Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Gazi F. Azad

  2. Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Kyla E. Minton

  3. Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Brianna J. Williams

  4. College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA

    Susan M. Sheridan

  5. Center for Mental Health, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    David S. Mandell

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  3. Department of Educational Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA

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Azad, G.F., Williams, B.J., Minton, K.E., Sheridan, S.M., Mandell, D.S. (2020). Partners in School: An Example of Care Coordination to Ensure Consistency of Evidence-Based Practices Across Home and School for Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). In: McClain, M., Shahidullah, J., Mezher, K. (eds) Interprofessional Care Coordination for Pediatric Autism Spectrum Disorder. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46295-6_11

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