Parent Leadership and Civic Engagement: Suggestions for the Next Individuals With Disabilities Education Act Reauthorization

Zach Rossetti; Meghan M. Burke; Kristina Rios; Javier I. Rivera; Kristen Schraml-Block; Oscar Hughes; James D. Lee; Janeth Aleman-Tovar

doi:10.1177/1044207319901260

Parent Leadership and Civic Engagement: Suggestions for the Next Individuals With Disabilities Education Act Reauthorization

Zach Rossetti, Meghan M. Burke, Kristina Rios, Javier I. Rivera, Kristen Schraml-Block, Oscar Hughes, James D. Lee, Janeth Aleman-Tovar

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Although parent involvement is a cornerstone of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), few individual parents of children with disabilities participate in civic engagement to voice their suggestions for the next IDEA reauthorization. To address this gap, a civic engagement training was conducted with 95 parents of children with disabilities across four states. At the end of the training, participants completed videotaped testimonials voicing their suggestions for the next IDEA reauthorization. Participant suggestions clustered around three themes: expanding IDEA to address specific concerns; adding text to provide specificity and clarity in IDEA; and implementing the current version of IDEA. Implications for research and policy are discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	99-111
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Disability Policy Studies
Volume	31
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1044207319901260
State	Published - Sep 1 2020

Keywords

IDEA reauthorization
civic engagement
disability
parent advocacy

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Law

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