Family Action for Inclusion in Education
This EENET book tells the stories of family-based advocacy organisations which have helped to transform education systems in southern Africa, South Asia, Europe and Australia. It has been written for family and community members who may feel isolated and want to form a support group, or advocacy organisation, to challenge exclusion. It will also be of interest to those interested in promoting more inclusive practices in education, such as teachers, teacher educators, policy makers and consumer organisations.

This book is now available to download (pdf 1.4mb)
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Article from Newsletter 7:
Family Action for Inclusion in Education

Family Involvement in Inclusive Education: Call for Stories

Family Involvement in Inclusive Education - Outline of an EENET project

Stories

• Achieving Change - Parents Training Parents - Lesotho Society of Mentally Handicapped Persons, Parents and Families (LSMHP)
• Asian Parents' Association for Special Educational Needs in Tower Hamlets - APASENTH London, UKDisabled Children's Action Group (DICAG) South Africa
• Disabled Children's Action Group (DICAG) South Africa
• Nepal: Let's work together Community based action for inclusion
• Setting up a parents' group SARPV, Bangladesh
• Speranta - Timisoara, Romania
• Striving for Inclusive Education for All - Queensland Parents of People with Disabilities (QPPD), Australia
• TREBUIE! an organisation for children and adults with special needs Bucharest, Romania

Articles

Families Together: A community initiative in Tower Hamlets, London, UK

Article from newsletter 11:
Family Friendly! Working with deaf children and their communities around the world (Author: Kirsty Wilson. Date: 2007. Country: various)

"Innovations in developing countries" is a unique resource book for anyone working in community-based services. The seventeen chapters have been written by experienced practitioners drawn from various disciplines and across the continents. Grouped into three main sections - Service Foundations, Meeting Needs and Developing Services - the chapters cover issues as diverse as family involvement, mobilising communities; fund-raising and evaluating services. Since its publication in 1995, the book has been widely used in training courses around the world. It is now available free-of-charge on the Internet thanks to the gracious permission of the publishers, Lisieux Hall Publications.

Chapters of particular relevance to parent/family issues are:

Parents as Trainers of families, professionals and communities
Training materials from the Lesotho Society of Mentally Handicapped Persons
Spanish translation

Article from newsletter 11:
Supporting inclusive education in Afghanistan – a father’s story (Author: IDCS. Date: 2007. Country: Afghanistan)

Article from Newsletter 10
Working with parents in Uganda

Useful Links

Inclusion International is a network of families, self-advocates and committed friends. It works to better the lives of the 60 million persons living with intellectual disabilities, around the world. Inclusion International unites close to 200 local and national member associations in 115 countries. It is one of the largest international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) in the field of disability.