When working with children with exceptionalities from diverse backgrounds, whether in the school system or in a counseling setting, it is very important to both involve and provide support for the parents. A large part of this will be educating parents on the needs of their child and then providing them with resources that will help them to support and help their child. For your final project you will create a 15-20 slide PowerPoint presentation that will focus on educating and supporting parents in meeting the needs of their exceptional child.
The first half (10-12 slides) of your PPT presentation will be educational in which you will help the parent to fully understand your chosen exceptionality and the specific needs of a child with this exceptionality. In the second half of your presentation (5-7 slides) you will provide the parents will numerous resources that they can turn to for additional education and support making sure to cover the following areas:

Web resources
Local and national agencies
Instructional and parent support organizations
Linguistic and cultural support services

Make sure to include both online resources and local resources within your own community. For each resource provide the following information:

Name
Purpose of organization
Overview of services provided
Address and phone number if local or URL if online resource
Cost if applicable
Benefit organization will be to parent
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