Parent voice: Supporting families with special needs

Ellen McHugh, long time activist and Public Advocate Williams’s appointee to the NYC Citywide Council on Special Education, delves into the challenges facing parents of students with special education needs. Ethical relationships among educators, parents, and the students themselves are crucial to these students’ success. Too often educators minimize the importance of parental input even though the law requires that they be equal partners in their children’s educational planning. Remote and hybrid learning has added new obstacles to and opportunities for partnerships between parents and educators. Overview 00:00-00:43 Intros00:43-02:25 Parent to Parent02:25-04:08 Deficit model04:08-06:18 Impact of deficit model on teaching06:18-09:18 Looking at a child as a whole person09:18-15:35 Respect for parents15:35-19:43 Effects of the shift to remote learning19:43-20:48 Program Adaptation Document (PAD)20:48-23:26 Integrated Co-Teaching class23:26-32:30 PAD, continued32:30-33:55 Issues of support during pandemic33:55-43:39 Relationships between NYC’s District 75 schools and district schools43:39-49:26 Ethical relationships49:26-51:00 Outro Transcription Click here to see the full transcription of this episode. 

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