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Improving Quality of Life of Families Headed by Parents with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Children by Means of Assistive Social Robotics
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Suze van Wijngaarden; Marja W. Hodes; Leo Cardinaal; Mark Koning; Alice Schippers – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: Families of parents with intellectual disabilities still face discrimination, stigma and inadequate support, placing them in vulnerable positions. Social assistive robotics offers promising support. This study investigates the possible impact of social assistive robotics on family quality of life (FQoL). Method: An inclusive, iterative…
Descriptors: Parents with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Social Bias
Average and Bright Adults with Parents with Mild Cognitive Difficulties: The Huck Finn Syndrome 20 Years Later
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O'Neill, Audrey Myerson – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2011
Background: This longitudinal study of 20 average and bright adults with parents with cognitive difficulties follows a study 20 years earlier of their childhood adaptation to their parents. Method: Semistructured interviews about life situation and changes and perception of family-of-origin. Results: The participants' socioeconomic status changed…
Descriptors: Social Class, Adjustment (to Environment), Depression (Psychology), Parents with Disabilities
Considering the Contextual Fit of an Intervention for Families Headed by Parents with an Intellectual Disability: An Exploratory Study
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Mildon, Robyn; Wade, Catherine; Matthews, Jan – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2008
Background: The purpose of this paper was to report on the results of an exploratory trial of an intensive home-based parenting programme for parents with an intellectual disability. The aim of the programme was to combine the delivery of evidence-based parent education technology for parents with an intellectual disability with two strategies…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mental Retardation, Parent Education, Child Rearing
Special Parenting and the Combined Skills Model
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Young, Sadie; Hawkins, Tim – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2006
Background: The Child and Special Parenting Service provides flexible assessment, long-term domiciliary support and home-based teaching to intellectually disabled parents. It provides key coordination between the Learning Disability Service and the Children's Service with focussed parenting assessments, where issues of child care and protection…
Descriptors: User Satisfaction (Information), Mental Retardation, Child Rearing, Teaching Methods