Parents as stakeholders: Their expectations in individualized education plan for special education

Nora Mislan, Azlina Mohd Kosnin, Kee Jiar Yeo and Shariffudin Rio Sumarni

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Abstract: The importance of equality among people cannot be over-stressed as it is already now which includes children with disabilities. Hence, the Individualised Education Plan (IEP) for special education was born. The objective of this research is to investigate parents' expectations towards the implementation. To gather data, semi-structured interviews are deployed to seven teaches and five parents while questionnaires are given to 17 teachers and 26 parents. The findings show that parents are satisfied with the services that teachers gave and showed in the IEP implementation. They also have high expectations towards the teachers and other issues such as the placement of specialists to provide more support and better understanding from the teachers. These results mean that misunderstanding could surface between both the teachers and parents. Therefore, collaboration between both parties should be worked out so that the IEP process could take place smoothly. Also, the schools should look into hiring specialist into the program as teachers would be able to learn from them.

Keywords: Parents; expectations; individualized education plan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 H75 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-06-01
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