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ERIC Number: EJ919556
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Jul
Pages: 25
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0162-3532
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Fighting for Their Rights: Advocacy Experiences of Parents of Children Identified with Intellectual Giftedness
Duquette, Cheryll; Orders, Shari; Fullarton, Stephanie; Robertson-Grewal, Kristen
Journal for the Education of the Gifted, v34 n3 p488-512 Jul 2011
This research examined the advocacy experiences of 16 parents of adolescents and young adults who had been assessed as intellectually gifted. The purpose was to determine the applicability of the four dimensions of advocacy to their experiences (awareness, information seeking, presenting the case, and monitoring). Participants responded to a questionnaire and 14 also participated in individual interviews. The parents advocated individually to have their own children identified as intellectually gifted, to have them placed in specific programs, and, in the case of a dual diagnosis, to have accommodations written in the Individual Education Plans. It was also found that their experiences could be categorized according to the dimensions of advocacy and that there was a process involving a series of key events that triggered activities associated with each dimension. (Contains 3 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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