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Protecting Children with Special Needs: Working with Other Professionals to Create Responsive Services (Roundtable 3)
Protecting Children with Special Needs: Working with Other
Professionals to Create Responsive Services
(Roundtable 3)
Children with disabilities, especially developmental disabilities, are particularly vulnerable to abuse and violence. This roundtable discussion presents a variety of resources and information to address the ways that disability and victim assistance professionals can collaborate to end violence against children with disabilities. Following a general review of the scope and extent of violence and abuse against children with disabilities, discussion focuses on the value and potential positive outcomes for ongoing collaboration between victim assistance and disability professionals, services and supports for collaboration, and how the existing disability services infrastructure may be utilized to help protect children with disabilities.
Michelle Armstrong
University of Wyoming
Wyoming Institute for Disabilities
1000 E. University Avenue
Laramie, WY 82071
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