Aims to help in developing working partnerships to meet special educational needs. The book defines what it means to practice and how to achieve it, asking "How can parent-teacher partnership become a reality for all concerned and why is there resistance to it?".

This is a readily accessible and clearly presented resource to aid teachers, parents, governors, and parent groups in developing working partnerships to meet special educational needs. The book explains what parent partnership is and examines its importance from different view points. By showing what parent partnership means in practice beyond rhetoric, it provides the means to help schools, parents, and administrators make a self-evaluation of their current position in terms of partnership, and plan for future development.

What is parent-teacher partnership?
Why parent-teacher partnership is important
Barriers to partnership: from the other side of the fence
Appendix 1: Institutional development materials
Appendix 2: Development activities
glossary
organisations
packages
references.