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Meeting the Challenge of Consultation and Collaboration

Developing Interactive Teams

Sharon S. Cohen, PhD, is an assistant professor at Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. Her research interests include educational collaboration, assessment in special education, and the social experiences of students with learning disabilities. Address: Sharon S. Cohen, Special Education Department, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA 16057.

Carol Chase Thomas

Carol Chase Thomas, EdD, is the associate dean in the College of Education at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Her research interests include collaboration and teaming and written language difficulties of children with special needs.

Robert O. Sattler

Robert O. Sattler, EdD, is an associate professor at Slippery Rock University. His research interests include teaming, correctional education, and emotional support programs.

Catherine Voelker Morsink

Catherine Voelker Morsink, PhD, is the dean in the College of Education at Slippery Rock University. Her research interests include teacher education, collaboration, and women in leadership.

The roles of special educators as consultants and collaborators have long been established and supported. The rationale for these roles is also well documented. Many models—consultative, collaborative, and teaming—have been suggested in the literature; sometimes, these models exhibit similar goals, competencies, and processes. Because of intensified pressures to collaborate, successful implementation of collaborative and team efforts requires that special educators expand their roles as interactive professionals. The purpose of this article is to define and describe the consultation, collaboration, and teaming models that have been implemented, discuss their strengths and limitations, delineate how these models contribute to interactive teaming, outline key features of the interactive team, and provide some guiding principles for successful implementation.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 30, No. 4, 427-432 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/002221949703000409


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