Providing quality special education services for culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD)
students with or at risk of disabilities is a double bind, a larger systemic conundrum beyond …

Existing literature documents the importance and difficulty of serving families under a family-
centered approach in Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education (EI/ECSE) …

Traditional conceptualizations of parent involvement are applied in paradoxical ways to
Black families–schools ostensibly seek families' participation in schooling, while positioning …

Parent advocacy has led to improved educational access and outcomes for students with
disabilities. Extant research indicates that parents are more likely to participate in individual …

African American children and youth are disproportionately represented in special
education, school suspensions, expulsion, and the school-to-prison pipeline. Research …

Parent advocacy is an essential component to help children with disabilities receive
appropriate school services. However, there are limited studies about parent advocacy for …

When either privileged or under-resourced families navigate gray areas in the law, including
federal laws related to students with disabilities such as Section 504 of the Rehabilitation …

Increasingly, interventions are being developed and tested with families of color, including
Latino families of transition-aged youth with autism. However, without culturally responsive …

Early intervention (EI) provides requisite support to address the developmental needs of
infants and toddlers and assists families in understanding how to meet their child's needs …

The individualized education program (IEP) is often referred to as the most important plan
designed to provide students with disabilities a free and appropriate public education that …