Developing Collaborative Partnerships with Families, Professionals, and Communities in ECSE.

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Overview of ECSE historical, philosophical, theoretical/empirical, and legal bases for family centered, relationship based special education services. Emphasis is on developing cross-cultural competence and a strengths-based, student-centered approach to empowering families and advocating for students with disabilities. Students will develop skills required to build and maintain collaborative relationships through effective communication and teaming with families, students, professional colleagues, and community members. These skills will be applied in the context of school-family-community partnerships, professional partnerships, person-centered planning/future planning and IFSP/IEP development.