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Direct linkAllgood, Nicole R. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Asperger syndrome (AS) and high functioning autism are complex developmental disabilities that have a significant impact on the individual and his/her family. Asperger syndrome is characterized by challenges with understanding non-verbal communication, difficulties with social relationships, and restricted interests. Having a brother or sister…
Descriptors: Siblings, Grief, Autism, Asperger Syndrome
Peer reviewedHaworth, Allisen M.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1996
This article discusses findings from interviews with 204 families of children with developmental disabilities to measure parental religiosity. It was found that mothers who spontaneously mentioned religion in their interview rated themselves higher on the religiosity scale, made positive comments about religion, and used religion as a coping…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Rearing, Children, Coping
Crabtree, Sara Ashencaen – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2007
Background: This qualitative study discusses family care-giving of children with developmental disabilities in the United Arab Emirates. Findings were reviewed in terms of the influence of culture on gender norms governing parental behaviour and aspirations. Method: An ethnographic approach is used in which parent participants were interviewed…
Descriptors: Mothers, Daughters, Developmental Disabilities, Arabs
Trute, Barry; Hiebert-Murphy, Diane; Levine, Kathryn – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2007
Background: Parental positive and negative appraisals of the family impact of childhood disability are tested as early predictors of parental self-esteem and overall family adjustment in households with young children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Method: Within 103 Canadian families, 103 mothers and 55 fathers independently…
Descriptors: Mothers, Gender Differences, Fathers, Developmental Disabilities
Hagner, David; Snow, Judith; Klein, Jay – Mental Retardation: A Journal of Practices, Policy and Perspectives, 2006
In-person semi-structured interviews were conducted with 7 homeowners selected by 6 state homeownership programs as representing good examples of homeownership by individuals with developmental disabilities. Recurring themes were found in the choice of a home, advantages and disadvantages of homeownership, handling problems, community…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Housing, Ownership, Developmental Disabilities
Peer reviewedHauser-Cram, Penny; Warfield, Marji Erickson; Shonkoff, Jack P.; Krauss, Marty Wyngaarden – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2001
Examined longitudinally the cognitive and adaptive behavior development of children with disabilities and their families' adaptation over time. Found that children's type of disability predicted trajectories in development of cognition and social and daily living skills. Type of disability also predicted changes in maternal (but not paternal)…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Developmental Disabilities
Peer reviewedHodapp, Robert M. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2001
Describes as advances of the Hauser-Cram et al. study increasing basic information about children with disabilities and their families, showing a combined organismic-contextual developmental perspective, and operationalizing tenets of developmental psychopathology. Considers as limitations: the role of etiology, the need to reconceptualize…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Developmental Disabilities
