Empowering Parents to Become Informed Advocates and Decision-Makers
Advocacy is an important part of the lives of many parents of children with ASD. Historically, parent advocacy has played a significant role in shaping education policies and practices for children with disabilities, including those with ASD. In order to
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owering Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Critical Decision-making for Quality Outcomes
Empowering Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Amanda Webster • Joy Cumming Susannah Rowland
Empowering Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Critical Decision-making for Quality Outcomes
Amanda Webster School of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Joy Cumming Learning Sciences Institute Australian Catholic University Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Susannah Rowland Coorparoo, Queensland, Australia
Comic illustrations by India Webster ISBN 978-981-10-2082-7 ISBN 978-981-10-2084-1 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2084-1
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Foreword
I have had the great fortune to meet many children and adults on the autism spectrum and their family members throughout my career. They have taught me a great deal about what it means to live with autism and about the role professionals have played in their lives. I have learned that, for many families, interacting with professionals can help or hinder, decrease or increase stress, empower or disempower, cause or resolve conflict, create or solve problems. From a professional perspective, we would do well to be guided by the work of Carl Dunst, the Turnbulls and others who have advocated for decades that family empowerment should be a primary outcome of intervention. Over the past two decades, we have amassed a large body of research supporting the use by professionals of family-centred practices that empower families. The use of a familycentred approach has been linked to impr
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