Santamaría Graff, Cristina2024-09-232024-09-232023Santamaría Graff, C. (2023). Family as Faculty: Learning from Latinx immigrant families in a special education teacher preparation course. In M. Caspe & R. Hernández (Eds.), Family and Community Partnerships (pp. 135-142). Information Age Publishinghttps://hdl.handle.net/1805/43482In this chapter, I use my interactions with Lety (pseudonym), a Latina immigrant parent of a child with Down syndrome who is a co-educator of this course and an advocate for Latine families of children with disabilities, to illustrate how collaboration and co-creation improves the quality and relevance of educator opportunities to learn and listen with families. I also illustrate how an FAF approach helps pre-service teachers listen to and act on concerns and knowledge provided by families. (*Please note that final publication uses "Latine" rather than "Latinx" throughout).Latina immigrantsChildrenDown syndromeCo-educatorsChapter