<p>Families of children with disabilities often have many different contacts with professional representing different principals. This places high demands on their professional work together to meet the needs of families and use resources efficiently. The method used is a literature review which aims to describe what is needed to achieve good collaboration between different professions around families with children with disabilities, and that from an organizational perspective to examine why there are often gaps in collaboration and how this affects the parents' life situation.</p><p>The theories in this study originated from organizational and sociological theories. The most central concept in this study is collaboration from an organizational perspective. The results show that the interaction is problematic, due to that collaborative organizations often have rules which are incompatible and a lack of accountability on who is liable makes impairment in the interaction. Lack of cooperation affects parents' life situation in that they always have to fight for their rights and they often feel that they face a lack of knowledge from the professional. In order to achieve a successful interaction is required, inter alia, an open mind and that the collaborative professions feel they have an equal status.</p>

Families of children with disabilities often have many different contacts with professional representing different principals. This places high demands on their professional work together to meet the needs of families and use resources efficiently. The method used is a literature review which aims to describe what is needed to achieve good collaboration between different professions around families with children with disabilities, and that from an organizational perspective to examine why there are often gaps in collaboration and how this affects the parents' life situation. The theories in this study originated from organizational and sociological theories. The most central concept in this study is collaboration from an organizational perspective. The results show that the interaction is problematic, due to that collaborative organizations often have rules which are incompatible and a lack of accountability on who is liable makes impairment in the interaction. Lack of cooperation affects parents' life situation in that they always have to fight for their rights and they often feel that they face a lack of knowledge from the professional. In order to achieve a successful interaction is required, inter alia, an open mind and that the collaborative professions feel they have an equal status.