Parents with Disabilities

Parents With Physical, Systemic, or Visual Disabilities

Megan Kirshbaum, Ph.D and Rhoda Olkin, Ph.D. Through the Looking Glass, 2198 Sixth Street, Suite 100, Berkeley, CA 94710. (800) 644-2666 (voice); (800) 804-1616 (TTY); [email protected]; www.lookingglass.org Original manuscript below was published in: Sexuality and Disability, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 2002, (pp. 65-80 in the original). The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com ...

Respecting children with disabilities--and their parents.

Depression among parents of children with disabilities.

We examined the rate of depression among 110 parents of children with disabilities and tested a model to determine the unique factors associated with parental depression. Consenting parents completed measures of depression, family satisfaction, physical health, problem-solving abilities, stress appraisals, and child functional impairment. Participants were categorized as depressed or nondepress...

The Educational Attainment Process Among Adolescents with Disabilities And Children of Parents with Disabilities.

This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) to examine the relationship between disability, parental and youth university expectations in 1997, and youth high school completion and university enrolment by 2003. Results indicate that educational attainment is not equal for young adults with and without disabilities in the United States. Parents-but not ado...

The experience of transformation in parents of children with disabilities:

Many parents assert that, despite the considerable and sustained stresses involved in parenting a child with a disability, their experiences have been personally transformative. Increasingly, researchers are advocating for a theoretical understanding of family life management following the diagnosis of disability in a child, with an emphasis on family strengths and resilience, attestations of p...