The emerging role of the special educator as a collaborative consultant with regular educators, administrators, and parents has prompted concern for the development of communication and interaction skills. A training program was developed at Fayetteville State University to meet the immediate need of providing a mechanism by which inservice educators could learn theory and skills in consultation as a component of their master's degree program in categorical special education.
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