Development and Political Consequences of Identity in Parents of Disabled Children: IEP Meeting Participation and Administrative Burdens

• In Event: The Role of Disability in Education and Health Policy

Brief Overview

This paper examines how parents develop an identity around their child's disability and how identity, together with group membership, helps overcome administrative burdens in the IEP process

Authors

• Kristin Kay Lunz Trujillo, University of South Carolina

• Monica C Schneider, Miami University-Oxford

• Timothy Herbert Callaghan, Boston University

• Steven Michael Sylvester, Utah Valley University