{"id":15892,"date":"2016-10-27T14:23:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T13:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dide.org\/how-to-collaborate-with-families-of-students-with-special-needs\/"},"modified":"2016-10-27T14:23:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T13:23:22","slug":"how-to-collaborate-with-families-of-students-with-special-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dide.org\/en\/how-to-collaborate-with-families-of-students-with-special-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"How to collaborate with families of students with special needs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The education of children is one of the greatest concerns of families, especially when minors present learning difficulties<\/strong> of some kind. In these cases, <\/span> the alliance between parents and educational centers is essential for students with special needs to achieve greater success.<\/span><\/p>\n

The special role of families of students with special needs<\/h2>\n

\"How<\/a><\/p>\n

As Ivette Aranda Salas explains in her work<\/span> Special educational needs. The school-family-community relationship <\/span><\/i>, \u201c<\/span>the family possesses detailed and valuable information regarding the development and behavior of their sons and daughters and plays a fundamental role in the detection<\/strong> and timely evaluation of special educational needs<\/a>.\u201d In parallel, <\/span>the educational center needs to know what the child’s family environment is like in order to understand their situation globally and be able to provide an adequate response to the student’s circumstances that allows the maximum possible formative development.<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, <\/span>the parent\/school partnership must be unbreakable, especially in the case of families of students with special needs. In this sense, the active participation and involvement of the family in the child’s educational programs generates an enormous positive impact on the maintenance and generalization of learning.<\/span><\/p>\n

How can these ties be strengthened?<\/p>\n

Recommendations for educational centers<\/h2>\n

There is no specific protocol to encourage the integration of families of students with special needs, although educational centers should strive to implement initiatives and projects that promote joint work.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this sense, the following <\/span>strategies will improve the relationship of parents with the educational institution and, therefore, promote student learning:<\/span><\/p>\n