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It's time to accept help
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.3.06, 2006, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A panel of practitioners give their opinions on the case of a young disabled women who is being looked after at home by her elderly parents. The case highlights the importance of providing support to carers.
Learning to use simple massage with disabled children: parents' experiences of a training and support programme
- Authors:
- SAVIN-BADEN Maggi, POWELL Lesley, BALOW Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Learning in Health and Social Care, 5(2), June 2006, pp.69-80.
- Publisher:
- Blackwell
This article presents a pedagogical evaluation of parents' understanding of their own learning in relation to the Training and Support Programme they received to enable them to undertake simple massage with their disabled children. Data were gathered from exit interviews with 17 parents who had been involved over the course of 2 months. Analysis was undertaken using interpretative interactionism in order to understand the relationship between parents' learning approaches and the training approach implemented. The findings indicated that the Training Programme largely adopted a behavioural approach that reflected the teaching practices of the trainers. However, cognitive developmental learning was also part of the overarching approach and, in the long term, this was the approach which fitted with most parents' needs. What was particularly apparent was the importance of the relationship between the learning approaches adopted and parents' desire to learn in a particular way. Furthermore, parents argued that the Training and Support Programme had high positive impact on their children and their family lives in general. This report is one of the first examples of an evaluation that sought to analyse and to understand the pedagogical tensions of parents' experiences of learning on a Training and Support Programme in the UK.
Changing weights and measures: disability and child poverty
- Author:
- BURCHARDT Tania
- Journal article citation:
- Poverty, 123, Winter 2006, pp.6-9.
- Publisher:
- Child Poverty Action Group
There has been a fall in child poverty from its peak of one in three children in 1998/99. The author looks at how children of disabled parents and disabled children themselves have fared relative to children not affected by disability.
A lifeline for Tom and Mary
- Author:
- THORP Samantha
- Journal article citation:
- Children Now, 22.02.06, 2006, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket
Parents of disabled children have to navigate a complex maze of health and care services often under trying circumstances. This article discusses the importance of support services for these parents. The article focuses on a local family support group in Wandsworth, south London which is run by the national organisation Contact a Family.
Help is just a phone call away
- Author:
- BARTLETT Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.03.06, 2006, p.30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Support for new parents who are disabled is rare. This article reports on the Disabled Parents Network’s Support Service, the winner of Community Care's 2005 Maureen Oswin Memorial Award.
Authoritative parenting and parental stress in parents of pre-school and older children with developmental disabilities
- Authors:
- WOOLFSON L., GRANT E.
- Journal article citation:
- Child: Care, Health and Development, 32(2), March 2006, pp.177-184.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Rearing a child with a developmental disability is associated with increased parental stress. Theories of stress and adjustment and bi-directional theories of child development suggest that parenting could influence these negative outcomes. Relationships between parenting approaches and stress in parents of children with developmental disabilities (DD) (N = 53) were examined across two age groups, 3–5 years and 9–11 years and compared with a contrast group of typically developing children (TD) (N = 60). Measures used were the Parenting Stress Index-Short Form and Rickel and Biasatti's modification of Block's Child Rearing Practices Report, classified into Baumrind's parenting styles using Reitman and Gross's method. Parents in the older DD group used Authoritative parenting less than parents in the younger DD group, while the opposite developmental pattern was seen in the TD group. Multivariate analysis of variance showed a significant group × parenting style interaction for Parental Distress, Parent–Child Dysfunctional Interaction and Difficult Child. Stress measures were higher for the DD group and seemed to be associated with Authoritative parenting approaches, an effect that was not observed in the TD group. Findings suggest that the well-established effect of group on stress may be moderated by parenting style. Authoritative parenting may be highly stressful for parents of children with DD to implement, resulting in a decrease in its use across the two age groups.
Helpful actions seen through the eyes of parents of children with disabilities
- Authors:
- PREZANT Fran Pollock, MARSHAK Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 21(1), January 2006, pp.31-45.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Parents of children with disabilities interact with a wide range of service providers in order to assure appropriate services for their children. While some actions performed by professionals are viewed as helpful, many are viewed as obstructive. Surveys completed by over 120 parents in the United States identified past actions perceived to be helpful and those thought to be unhelpful as well as identification of professionals associated with those actions. Using the critical incident technique, narrative responses were based on actual experiences that parents described. Parents were also asked to articulate specific actions they would like professionals to take in the future. Over half of the responses request desired relationships with professionals that focus on respect, collaboration, communication and information sharing. Implications for pre-professional training are discussed.