DIS 499/599: Overview: Module 1: Topic 1: Web Activity
Week 2: 1/21 -27
Objectives:
* To introduce the concept of family systems and family quality of life
* To build awareness and sensitivity to differing perspectives within a family system
* To differentiate between person-centered and family-centered planning
To complete this assignment successfully, you should:
1. Log on to the Beach Center on Families and Disability website and take a look.
2. At a minimum read;
Current Research: "Family Quality of Life" and "Family and Professional Partnerships"
Previous Research: "Family-Centered Service Delivery", "Fathers", "Family Support Research", and "Person-Centered Planning"
3. Email the instructor a summary of your visit to the Beach Center on Families and Disability. To receive 10 points for this assignment, at a minimum write a brief paragraph (10 sentences) that may include your thoughts on the assigned articles, other articles you read at this site, the purpose of the Beach Center and/or other comments you have about the site. (Remember: use this format for your email subject box: Dana ID/web/wk2)
Web Activity: Go to http://www.beachcenter.org
Email your assignment to Becky.Raabe@nau.edu
OPTIONAL: Each week I'll give you a link to a disability-specific website. This is FYI if you are interested in building a disability-related resource file. The postings will be sites I have found, or sites that students have forwarded to me. Inclusion of the websites on this page does not imply the instructor's, or NAU's, endorsement of the content of the website.
The
Autism Society of America: http://www.autism-society.org/
Once you have completed this activity you should:
Go on to VCC Activity
or
Go back to Topic
1
Email
the instructor: Becky.Raabe@nau.edu.
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