Family Live Chat: Including Us: Sharing Cultural Diversities
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Learn about cultural understanding in supporting families with special needs! 🌍✨ This webinar covers how to advocate for your child’s cultural needs, build trust with professionals, and improve communication.
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How you can help understanding grow when cultural differences are misunderstood?
Have you ever had someone misunderstand your cultural differences? It can
easily and innocently happen, but it is important to help others understand. But
what is the best way. Listen up…
Today our Family Live Chat brought together a diverse panel of parents for this exciting webinar that focuses on having conversations about assumptions, bias, and advocating for your child.
Join us to learn through real-life stories from our Expert Parents/Professionals
- Why is it important that a family’s culture is included in the services and resources you
use? - How do you have a conversation about assumptions? Strategies to begin the
conversation (power dynamics) professionals may not take criticism in a positive way.
Risk/benefits – building trust- how can you share information about culture? “Who lives
at home with you?” (multigenerational families etc.) - The Do’s and Don’ts for Families and Professionals
Chat Panelists:
- Zipporah Levi-Shackleford
- Claudia Axelrod
- Mauretta Copeland
- Hada Khan
- Rebecca Stickle
“These Family Chats are led and sponsored by parents and professionals from Parenting Special Needs Magazine, Home, and Community Positive Behavior Support Network, Positive Behavior Supports Corporation, Parent to Parent USA, and The Partnership for People with Disabilities at Virginia Commonwealth University.”
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