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Alice Nucifora; Sue Walker; Areana Eivers – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Definitions of adulthood for people with intellectual disability are often complicated, with milestones being markedly different for this population. This is then associated with difficulties for both the people with intellectual disability and their parents, who are closely involved in this transitional period. This paper aims to report on…
Descriptors: Maturity (Individuals), Adolescents, Adults, Intellectual Disability
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Yaman Ortas, Banu – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
Migrant women encounter new environments, opportunities, human behaviors, communication manners, traditions-customs and limitations in the country they migrate to, which may be completely different from their own countries. All these new situations create the need for employment, integration, education and social reintegration. Education of…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Females, Parents, Lifelong Learning
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Strecker, Shannon; Hazelwood, Zoe J.; Shakespeare-Finch, Jane – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2014
Background: Parenting a child with a developmental disability presents a variety of long-term physical and emotional challenges. When exploring parent wellbeing, the disability field is dominated by a deficit model despite parents reportedly demonstrating coping and resilience. The current study is embedded in a salutogenic theory (Antonovsky,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Individual Development, Developmental Disabilities
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Punch, Renee; Hyde, Merv – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2011
Psychosocial factors, including socioemotional well-being, peer relationships, and social inclusion with hearing and deaf peers, are increasingly becoming a focus of research investigating children with cochlear implants. The study reported here extends the largely quantitative findings of previous research through a qualitative analysis of…
Descriptors: Deafness, Assistive Technology, Individual Development, Peer Relationship