Significant Connections for Families of an ID Child (Benchmark Assessment)

In the context of human society, a family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage or other relationship), or co-residence (as implied by the etymology of the English word “family”)^{[citation needed]} or some combination of these.^{[citation needed]} The purpose of families is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Ideally, families would offer predictability, structure, and safety as members mature and participate in the community.^[1] In most societies, it is within families children acquire socialization for life outside the family. Additionally, as the basic unit for meeting the basic needs of its members, it provides a sense of boundaries for performing tasks in a heterosexual environment, ideally builds a person into a functional adult, transmits culture, and ensures continuity of humankind with precedents of knowledge.

Anthropologists generally classify most family organizations as matrifocal (a mother and her children); conjugal (a wife, her husband, and children, also called the nuclear family); avuncular (for example, a grandparent, a brother, his sister, and her children); or extended (parents and children co-reside with other members of one parent’s family).

Members of the immediate family may include spouses, parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters.^{[citation needed]} Members of the extended family may include aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces, and siblings-in-law.^{[citation needed]} Sometimes these are also considered members of the immediate family, depending on an individual’s specific relationship with them.^{[citation needed]} Sexual relations among the members are regulated by rules concerning incest such as the incest taboo.

The word “family” can be used metaphorically to create more inclusive categories such as community, nationhood, global village, and humanism.

The field of genealogy aims to trace family lineages through history.

The family is also an important economic unit studied in family economics.

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a) Interview a teacher of students with Intellectual Disability. Specifically, focus your interview questions concerning the impact an individual with Intellectual Disability has on family structure. You may also want to center your questions on the collaborative skills necessary for teachers to possess when interacting with families who have a child with Intellectual Disability.

b) Next, attend an IEP meeting and/or conference for a student with Intellectual Disability.

i) During the meeting, note the interactions that take place, facilitation skills that are employed during the meeting, and the manner in which information is disseminated to parents.

ii) According to what you have learned in this course, are these interactions, skills, etc. appropriate in terms of effective interactions with parents of children with Intellectual Disability?

iii) Write a 1,000-1,250 word essay that chronicles your observations and reactions, using your

text and notes from lectures, and your recommendations to foster better collaboration with regard to what you observed in the meeting.

c) Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.