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Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children
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National Council on Disability, 2012
Despite a dark history marked by the eugenics movement, increasing numbers of people with disabilities are choosing to become parents. Recent research reveals that more than 4 million parents--6 percent of American mothers and fathers--are disabled. This number will unquestionably increase as more people with disabilities exercise a broader range…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Civil Rights, Physical Disabilities, Developmental Disabilities
Parents with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness: Issues in Assessment and Services.
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Ackerson, Barry J. – Social Work, 2003
Reviews the literature on mentally ill parents and addresses conceptual issues in assessment and services. Critiques methods of assessment and recommends more appropriate and comprehensive assessment protocols. Model programs are discussed with a focus on the development of competent parenting skills combined with social supports for parents who…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Counseling Services, Evaluation Methods, Mental Disorders
The Home Inventory of Dangers and Safety Precautions--2: Addressing Critical Needs for Prescriptive Assessment Devices in Child Maltreatment and in Healthcare.
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Tymchuk, Alexander J.; Lang, Cathy M.; Doylniuk, Chrystina A.; Berney-Ficklin, Karen; Spitz, Rebecca – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1999
Describes a study involving 29 low-income parents with learning difficulties that validated a prescriptive home-danger and safety-precaution instrument containing 14 epidemiological categories to be used in the design and evaluation of family-tailored injury prevention and safety interventions. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Adults, Evaluation Methods, Family Environment, Injuries
Preventing Child Neglect: Child-Care Training for Parents with Intellectual Disabilities.
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Feldman, Maurice A. – Infants and Young Children, 1998
Describes an empirically validated assessment and child-care training model for parents with intellectual disabilities. The parent education approach is based on an interactional model of parenting and the view that many parenting problems are due to specific skill deficiencies that are remediable. A case study is presented. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Child Neglect, Child Rearing
The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory: Normative Data for American Sign Language.
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Anderson, Diane; Reilly, Judy – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2002
This article discusses the development of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory for American Sign Language (ASL-CDI), a parent report that measures early sign production. Normative data from 69 children (8-36 months) with deafness and their parents with deafness found the development of the ASL-CDI has been successful. (Contains…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Evaluation Methods, Infants
Connecticut Birth to Three System. Service Guideline 3: Children Referred for Speech Delays: Evaluation, Assessment and Intervention Guidance for Service Providers and Families of Young Children Whose Delays in Communication Are a Primary Concern.
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Connecticut Birth to Three System, Hartford. – 1998
This document presents guidelines for differential diagnosis and eligibility determination under Connecticut's Birth to Three System for young children with communication problems, usually delayed speech. An executive summary presents a rationale and recommendation locator in the form of a matrix of communication problems, the eligibility…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Communication Disorders, Delayed Speech, Developmental Delays