Abstract. A linguistic and cultural discontinuity between home school can create tensions, affect family engagement with schools teachers, interfere children's learning. Parent- family-focused interventions for families young children play an important role in positively addressing diversity. This study brings together the work done to develop test ICT-facilitated parents professionals working ...

Nowadays multicultural reality leads health professionals to interact in their daily work with individuals and families from diverse cultures. The interaction between a person or family and a health professional from a different culture is called "cultural encounter". These encounters involve difficulties, complications and barriers, which health professionals will have to face in order to prov...