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Pixa-Kettner, Ursula – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2008
Background: A nationwide questionnaire survey conducted in Germany in 2005 found 1584 families headed by persons with intellectual disability with 2164 adults becoming parents between 1990 and 2005. Materials and Methods: In spite of a lower response rate and a more limited time frame compared with a previous study undertaken in the early 1990s…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Parents with Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires
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Clayton, Olivia; Chester, Andrea; Mildon, Robyn; Matthews, Jan – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2008
Background: Challenges for practitioners who work with parents with intellectual disability arise from several sources. The purpose of the current study was to identify the stressors experienced by practitioners who work with parents with intellectual disability in Australia, investigate coping strategies and explore training needs so as to inform…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Mental Retardation, Professional Development, Coping
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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