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.
First you will need to choose an area of exceptionality that you will focus your presentation on. Examples of areas you can choose from are:
• Learning disabilities
• ADHD
• Emotional/behavior disabilities
• Communication Disorders
• Multiple Disabilities
• Traumatic and Acquired Brain Injury
• Vision Loss
• Physical and Health Disabilities
• Gifted, Creative, and Talented

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 with at least 6 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
Submit your final presentation to the Dropbox by Wednesday of Week 4 by 11:59pm EST. Your in-text citations and references should be in APA format.
Final Paper Grading Criteria Maximum Points
Part I – 10-12 PPT slides educating parents on your chosen exceptionality and the specific needs of a child with this exceptionality. 40
Part II – 5-7 PPT slides covering at least 6 resources that a parent can turn to for additional education and support making sure to cover the four different areas listed above by providing the outlined information. 20
Proper APA format of citations and references. 20
Grammar, spelling, and correct APA format 20
Total 100
Assignment #2
Annotated Bibliography:
In preparation of your final project you will conduct an annotated bibliography of a least 5 peer-reviewed journal articles. First you will need to choose the area of exceptionality you will focus on for your final project and use the same area for your annotated bibliography. The following are examples of areas you may chose from:
• Learning disabilities
• ADHD
• Emotional/behavior disabilities
• Communication Disorders
• Multiple Disabilities
• Traumatic and Acquired Brain Injury
• Vision Loss
• Physical and Health Disabilities
• Gifted, Creative, and Talented
What is an annotated bibliography?
It is an organized list of sources (referenced in APA format), such as books, journals, newspapers, magazines, reputable web pages, etc., each of which is followed by a summary or description of the source.
Annotations may consist of all or part of the following list of items, depending on the purpose of the bibliography:
• describe the content (focus) of the source
• describe the usefulness of the source
• evaluate the reliability of the source
• discuss any conclusions the author(s) may have made
• note key points from the article relevant to your final project
• describe your reaction to the source
What does an annotated bibliography look like?
The following in an example source from an annotated bibliography:
Waite, L. J., Goldschneider, F. K., & Witsberger, C. (1986). Nonfamily living and the erosion of traditional family orientations among young adults. American Sociological Review, 51 (4), 541-554.
The authors, researchers at the Rand Corporation and Brown University, use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Young Men to test their hypothesis that nonfamily living by young adults alters their attitudes, values, plans, and expectations, moving them away from their belief in traditional sex roles. They find their hypothesis strongly supported in young females, while the effects were fewer in studies of young males. Increasing the time away from parents before marrying increased individualism, self-sufficiency, and changes in attitudes about families. In contrast, an earlier study by Williams cited below shows no significant gender differences in sex role attitudes as a result of nonfamily living.