Teachers’ Beliefs About Administrators and Parents of Handicapped and Nonhandicapped Students

Promoting Involvement Between Low-Income Single Caregivers and Urban Early Intervention Programs

“…Also, programs may not encourage caregiver involvement. Previous research has shown that a lack of respect and support for parents, a relegation of parents to passive, peripheral roles in decision making, and administrative adherence to traditional views of parents as program supporters serve as barriers to involvement (Chavkin & Williams, 1990; Feldman, Gerstein, & Feldman, 1989;Leitch & Tangri, 1988;Nash, 1990;Vaughn, Bos, Harrell, & Lasky, 1988).…”