The FICC web site at www.fed-icc.org provides information for parents to help ensure that services for young children who are served under IDEA are of the highest quality. A founding precept of the FICC is involving family members at all levels of policy and service delivery planning, development, implementation, and evaluation.

Contacts

Sue Abderholden & Paula Goldberg
Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights (PACER Center)
8161 Normandale Blvd.
Minneapolis, MN 55437
952-838-9000
www.pacer.org

Carl Dunst
Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute
18A Regent Park Blvd.
Ashville, NC 28806
828-255-0470
www.puckett.org

Beth Harry
University of Miami
School of Education
PO Box 248065
Coral Gables, FL 33124
305-284-5363
bharry@miami.edu

Trina Osher
Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
1101 King Street
Suite 420
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-684-7710
www.ffcmh.org

Suzanne Ripley
National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY)
PO Box 1492
Washington, DC 20013
800-695-0285
www.nichcy.org

Carolyn Romano
The Federation for Children with Special Needs
1135 Tremont Street, Suite 420
Boston, MA 02120
617-236-7210
www.fcsn.org

George Singer
University of California
Graduate School of Education
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
805-893-2198
singer@education.ucsb.edu

Resources

Cho, S., & Singer, G. (in press). The adaptation of Korean immigrant parents to their children with disabilities. Topics in Early Childhood Education.

Dunst, C. (2001). Participation of young children with disabilities in community learning activities. In M. Guralnick (Ed.), Early childhood inclusion: Focus on change (pp. 307-333). Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company.

Dunst, C., Hamby, D., Trivette, C., Raab, M., & Bruder, M. (2000). Everyday family and community life and children's naturally occurring learning opportunities. Journal of Early Intervention, 23(3), 151-164.

Harry, B., Kalyanpur, M., & Day, M. (1999). Building cultural reciprocity with families. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company.

Harry, B., Rueda, R., & Kalyanpur, M. (1999). Cultural reciprocity in sociocultural perspective: Adapting the normalization principle for family collaboration. Exceptional Children 66(1), 123-136.

Landau, J., Romano, C., & Vohs, J. (1999). Every single student: A PEER resource manual on standards-based education and students with disabilities. Boston, MA: Federation for Children with Special Needs. [Download from www.fcsn.org]

Santarelli, G., Denny, M., Singer, J., & Singer, G. (in press). "With my eyes I was telling her 'No'": The experiences of fifteen Latino families in an NICU. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities.

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (1999). Parent involvement in educating children with disabilities: Theory and practice. In the Twenty-first Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the IDEA. Washington, DC: Author.

Research Connections is a biannual review of research on topics in special education, focusing on research sponsored by the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs. This issue of Research Connections was developed by Warger, Eavy Associates for the ERIC/OSEP Special Project.

The ERIC/OSEP Special Project is operated by The Council for Exceptional Children through the ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education.