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Case Study: Students may benefit from keeping a personal journal in which they reflect on various cultural beliefs, cultural challenges they have experienced, and their own sense of cultural competence. At the end of this chapter, they could turn in the journal with an evaluation of their change/growth that is evaluated based on reflection and critical analysis (and not what would primarily be superficial belief changes). Students could reflect on key concepts and issues, for example:

Cultural values, beliefs, and expectations have strong impacts on our institutions including public schools, teacher-parent relationships, and the way we run and expect families to respond during IEP/ITP meetings. For example, we expect the transition team to focus on making students independent and self-reliant. We schedule meetings efficiently, often with back-to-back one hour slots for IEP/ITP meetings. What are some of the other ways in which public schools and agencies support these values? What are some of the ways that you as an individual have learned to follow these values?

Question 1: You are working with a family to negotiate goals of independence and self-sufficiency. How might you work with family members who were having a strong, negative reaction to their child learning to make decisions independently?

Question 2: How might you respond to a family who had strong beliefs that their child should remain and work within the community, but you could only find very limited jobs for minimal pay in that area? Your assessment is that the student is very capable of working full time and developing a satisfying career path; however, this is currently available only by going outside of the community's resources.

Question 3: How would you, or would you, share information with an external agency member you needed to collaborate with, when you suspected that the family preferred that information about having a child with a disability not be shared with outsiders?

Question 4: How would you deal with a family who had very protective and strict role expectations for a young teenage girl? How would you respond if you believed that she accepted these roles for herself within the family? How would you respond if she differed from her family and wished for more freedom for herself?