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Maurice A. Feldman; Amanda Cappon; Kay Corbier; Vicky Caruana; Mechane Laronde; Kendra Thomson – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: This study evaluated the Step-by-Step Parenting Program (SBSPP) to prepare expectant parents with intellectual disabilities to care for their newborns. Method: Two expectant parents with intellectual disabilities were seen once or twice weekly in their homes for about 2 h over 16 and 20 weeks (21 and 27 sessions), respectively. The key…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Parents with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Neonates
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Donna A. Morere; Thomas E. Allen; Maura Jaeger; Dana Winthrop – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
Research has demonstrated that deaf children of deaf signing parents (DOD) are afforded developmental advantages. This can be misconstrued as indicating that no DOD children exhibit early language delays (ELDs) because of their early access to a visual language. Little research has studied this presumption. In this study, we examine 174 ratings of…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Young Children, Parents with Disabilities, Deafness
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Natalie Libster; Robin Harwood; Karen Meacham; Connie Kasari – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Little is known about the parenting experiences of autistic mothers, yet there is reason to believe that autistic mothers of non-autistic daughters have a unique set of experiences, especially during their daughters' adolescence. Seven autistic mothers of adolescent (n = 5) and adult (n = 2) non-autistic daughters were interviewed about their…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Child Rearing, Mothers, Adolescents
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Donna A. Morere; Thomas E. Allen – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2025
Deaf children of hearing parents (DOH) are at risk for early language delays (ELD) due to environmental and etiological factors, compounding the previously reported higher incidence of ELD in deaf children of deaf parents (DOD) compared to the general population. Archival data from the online database of the Visual Communication and Sign Language…
Descriptors: Deafness, American Sign Language, Parents with Disabilities, Students with Disabilities