In the book Working with Families of Young children with Special Needs, the author states many research based practices that can benefit those families who have children with special needs of early ages. This book was written by R.A. McWilliam, who is the director of the Center for Children and Family Research at Siskin Children’s Institute in Chattanooga. Throughout the book you can find articulate procedures for planning, implementing, and evaluating family-centered early interventions. As well as it provides many helpful and useful resources such as, checklist, and “how-tos” to use to support early intervention services. In the book there are three basic themes which are: how professionals should treat families, what professionals should do with families and addressing family-level needs

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