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Parent Presentation

When working with children with exceptionalities from diverse backgrounds, whether in the school system or in a counseling setting, it is very important to both involve and provide support for the parents. A large part of this will be educating parents on the needs of their child and then providing them with resources that will help them to support and help their child. For your final project you will create a 15-20 slide PowerPoint presentation that will focus on educating and supporting parents in meeting the needs of their exceptional child.

First you will need to choose an area of exceptionality that you will focus your presentation on. Examples of areas you can choose from are:

• Learning disabilities
• ADHD
• Emotional/behavior disabilities
• Communication Disorders
• Multiple Disabilities
• Traumatic and Acquired Brain Injury
• Vision Loss
• Physical and Health Disabilities
• Gifted, Creative, and Talented

The first half (10-12 slides) of your PPT presentation will be educational in which you will help the parent to fully understand your chosen exceptionality and the specific needs of a child with this exceptionality. In the second half of your presentation (5-7 slides) you will provide the parents with at least 6 resources that they can turn to for additional education and support making sure to cover the following areas:

• Web resources
• Local and national agencies
• Instructional and parent support organizations
• Linguistic and cultural support services

Make sure to include both online resources and local resources within your own community. For each resource provide the following information:

• Name
• Purpose of organization
• Overview of services provided
• Address and phone number if local or URL if online resource
• Cost if applicable
• Benefit organization will be to parent

Submit your Final Project by clicking on the “Week 4 Final Project” link below by Wednesday of Week 4 by 11:59pm EST. Your in-text citations and references should be in APA format.