School-Parent Collaborations in Indigenous Communities

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Dr. Iris Manor-Binyamini is a Lecturer and a senior faculty member of the Department of Special Education at the University of Haifa in Israel. Her academic interests include special education in the Bedouin community in Israel, inter- and intra-community comparisons of the coping styles and strategies used by parents and siblings of adults with various disabilities and from different minority communities in Israel (the Bedouin, Druze, and Ultraorthodox Jewish communities), and the collaboration within multi-disciplinary teams in special education schools, as well as the collaboration between these teams and the parents of children with disabilities.One of her recent publications, Parental Coping with Developmental Disorders in Adolescents within the Ultraorthodox Jewish   Community in Israel,  published in 2012 in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, was recognized by the Psychology Progress team as a Key Research Article in Psychology.Dr. Manor-Binyamini has written extensively on the Psychology of the Bedouin Community, including a  comprehensive research evaluation report: Assessing a Multidisciplinary Training Program for Professionals Working with Children with Special Needs in the Bedouin Community.

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