One strategy that is increasingly being used for helping early intervention professionals become more family centered is to involve family members in personnel preparation efforts. The purpose of this article is twofold: (a) to describe the types of and rationale for some of the roles family members have begun to play in personnel preparation efforts and (b) to offer guidelines and strategies for facilitating family participation in ways that model collaborative family-professional partnerships. The strategies provided have application across a variety of personnel preparation contexts (e.g., inservice, preservice, policymaking).
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