children of disabled parents which include the link between disability and child poverty, the effect of temporal discrimination on parents with learning difficulties in the child protection system, and the changing organizational responses to disabled parents and their families using evidence based practice...
The purpose of this chapter is to give an account of the range of experiences reported by forty-one parents and grandparents in five unpublished student theses. These accounts illustrate families’ attempts to obtain educational services and support for
. Parenting interventions have also been demonstrated to improve a range of parent and family outcomes including parenting styles, parent satisfaction and confidence in performing the parenting role, and relationships between parents in two-parent households (Barlow, Coren, & Stewart-Brown, 2002; Nowak...
This research explores the reported experiences of working parents of disabled children with respect to formal and informal sources of child-care, the need for which extends beyond the childhood years. Forty families with at least one disabled child, representing a variety of family structures and ...
Disabled children, parents and professionals: partnership on whose terms? Disability and Society 15, no. 4: 683-698.Murray, P. (2000) `Disabled Children, Parents and Professionals: Partnership on Whose Terms?', Disability and Society, 15 (4): 683-98....
PARENTS OF DISABLED CHILDREN OFTEN GIVE UP CAREERS, INCOME AND A NORMAL LIFE TO GIVE THEIR CHILDREN THE CARE THEY NEED. THE FAMILIES MAY GROW ISOLATED, WITH FEW OUTSIDERS REALIZING THEIR CHALLENGES. SONS TAKE UP HER WHOLE LIFE THESE AUTISTIC TWINS DO SOME VERY UNUSUAL THINGS.(Front)Smith, ...
With parenting receiving greater recognition within the disability movement, continuing debates about the role of children in caring for parents, and the development of social policies that emphasise parent support, the role of disabled people as parents has attracted the interest of both researchers an...
and the impact of parental disabilities on offspring. This chapter reviews the current state of knowledge on the development of children raised by parents with intellectual disabilities and the efficacy of child- and parent-focused interventions. First, a description of parents with intellectual disabili...
With respect to support systems, parents indicated that they primarily rely on their child's school, their spouse, and their extended families. Minor differences were found between mothers and fathers (with mothers perceiving greater level of needs than fathers), and families of children with ...
Attitudes towards disability amongst Pakistani and Bangladeshi parents of disabled children in the UK: considerations for service providers and the disabil... It has sometimes been assumed that religiously based explanations for and attitudes to having a disabled child have led to the low uptake of ...