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Accessibility in Teaching Assistant Training: A Critical Review of Programming from Ontario's Teaching and Learning Centres
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Vander Kloet, Marie – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
It is increasingly understood that university education must be accessible to persons with disabilities. The responsibility to make the university accessible is arguably shared by all of us and yet, the extent to which it has become fully accessible is certainly suspect. By undertaking qualitative, discursive analysis of websites, online texts and…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Criticism, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Preparing Professional Educators to Be Advocates for Vocationally-Oriented Special Needs Students.
Rosenberg, Howard; Tesolowski, Dennis G. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1980
The teacher's role as advocate for developmentally disabled students is described, and a model program for preparing teachers to be advocates is considered. Twelve competencies to be demonstrated in the Florida International University Vocational Education for the Handicapped Professional Certificate Program include knowledge of alternate role…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Competency Based Teacher Education, Developmental Disabilities, Disabilities
Empowering the Parents of Children in Substitute Care: A Training Model.
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Schatz, Mona Struhsaker; Bane, William – Child Welfare, 1991
Reviews the literature on the importance of foster children's connections to their biological families. Involvement of the placed child's biological family in all stages of the placement experience creates new forms of practice throughout the foster care system. Describes the use of group training for biological parents soon after placement and…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Biological Parents, Foster Care, Foster Children
Children of Incarcerated Parents.
Gabel, Katherine, Ed.; Johnston, Denise, Ed. – 1995
The arrest and imprisonment of a parent is significant trauma for children, and children of incarcerated parents are at high risk for juvenile delinquency. This book for social workers, psychologists, and others who work with children whose parents are incarcerated examines parental incarceration, its impact on children, care and placement of…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Caregivers, Child Welfare, Children
[Fact Sheets from the Children's Foundation.]
Children's Foundation, Washington, DC. – 1985
This document consists of seven fact sheets that address issues and problems associated with child care. The first one provides background information regarding the availability of child care services in private homes and centers, statistical information on working parents requiring child care services, and numbers of associations and agencies…
Descriptors: Certification, Child Advocacy, Child Caregivers, Day Care
Research Connections Canada: Supporting Children and Families, Number 7.
Lowe, Elaine, Ed. – 2001
Serving as a vehicle for raising the profile of and thereby gaining recognition for the important research and development work being conducted in Canada in support of children and families, the "Research Connections Canada" series compiles research and/or development papers as well as background papers, analytical literature reviews,…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Care, Child Responsibility, Children
Support Services.
Morris, Joan, Ed. – School Guidance Worker, 1981
Presents articles to help school counselors deal with and become aware of: (1) school and community resources; (2) the nature of the counseling role; (3) the necessity for coordination; (4) the use of parents and students as resources; (5) counselors as advocates; and (6) the reluctant client. (RC)
Descriptors: Advocacy, Agency Cooperation, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselor Role