Record: Sarah Parsons and Ann Lewis, “The Home-Education of Children with Special Needs or Disabilities in the UK: Views of Parents from an Online Survey” in International Journal of Inclusive Education 14, no. 1 (February 2010): 67-86.
Summary: Parsons, research fellow at the University of Birmingham, and Lewis, a professor at the same institution, came to this project after an earlier study of parents of children with disabilities kept running into anomalies. Parsons and Lewis kept finding parents who didn’t fit their survey categories because they had pulled their kids out of schools. 7% of the sample of their earlier study had done this, which was a surprise to Parsons and Lewis. They were further surprised at how many of these parents expressed frustration that their choices and views weren’t being taken into consideration in the original study. As Parsons and Lewis put it, “our interest (and conscience) pricked, we were determined to find out more about these ‘invisible’ families.” (p. 68) So they created an online survey for homeschooling families with special needs kids and got 27 British parents to fill it out. Here is what they found: Continue reading
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