Strategies for Partnering with Parents of Children with Special Needs

Course Information

Building partnerships with parents takes hard work, and it has many rewards.

The purpose of this 2-hour online course is to explore various aspects of building partnerships between early childhood professionals and parents of children with special needs.

During the course, participants will learn about:

• the challenges that may occur when parents have a child with special needs
• effective communication strategies that can be used to build stronger relationships with parents
• ways parents and families can participate in child care programs
• specific strategies for gaining support from parents of children in their programs who do not have disabilities.

This training course was developed and produced by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service of the Texas A&M University System in cooperation with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Child Care Licensing Division, and using funds provided by the Texas Workforce Commission.