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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

Albertini, John; Shannon, Nora – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 1996
Semistructured interviews with 10 deaf and 10 hearing young adults found that instrumental writing occurred as frequently between deaf children and hearing parents as between deaf children and deaf parents. Deaf respondents did less personal or expressive writing than hearing peers. Implications for literacy instruction and further research are…
Descriptors: Children, Deafness, Expressive Language, Family Environment

Spencer, Patricia – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2000
This study investigated potential effects of auditory and other communicative experience on development of visual attention in 80 infants (tested at 9, 12, and 18 months), half deaf and half with deaf mothers. Results indicate that early visual attention is associated with and potentially influenced by a complex interaction of maturation,…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Child Development, Deafness, Infants
Myers, Lynda Rae; Hulsebosch, Pat – 1997
The Deaf Parent to Hearing Parent project was developed to utilize the resources of the Deaf community to support the knowledge, skills, and networks of hearing parents raising deaf children. First, six deaf parents of deaf children met for focus group sessions to brainstorm the knowledge, strategies, and skills they had gained from personal…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Community Programs, Deafness, Focus Groups
LaPlante, Mitchell P.; And Others – 1996
Based on the 1990 Core Questionnaire and Family Resources Supplement of the National Health Interview Survey, involving 108,815 individuals, this report presents estimates of the prevalence of disability in families, selected demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, and utilization of health services by families with and without members with…
Descriptors: Age, Disabilities, Educational Attainment, Ethnic Groups

Poon, Brenda T. – CAEDHH Journal/La Revue ACESM, 1997
This review of research on language development of hearing children of deaf parents identified three areas of focus: (1) oral language development; (2) sign language development; and (3) mode of communication--oral and/or manual. Areas of future study are suggested. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Development, Deafness, Expressive Language

Llewellyn, Gwynnyth; McConnell, David; Cant, Rosemary; Westbrook, Mary – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 1999
A study investigated the characteristics of the support networks of 25 Australian mothers with intellectual disabilities. Three types of support networks were found based on mothers' living arrangements: mothers living in a parent/parent-figure household, mothers living alone with their children, and mothers living with a partner in their own…
Descriptors: Adults, Family Environment, Family Structure, Foreign Countries

Kirshbaum, Megan – Infants and Young Children, 2000
This article describes how a disability culture perspective has informed research and early intervention serving parents with physical disabilities and their infants and an approach to research, resource development, and early intervention that has evolved in a community-based organization in response to the unmet needs of parents with…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cultural Influences, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
Shaughnessy, Michael F.; And Others – 1996
This paper reviews the literature and offers an international perspective on current programs and issues in training individuals with mental retardation to parent, nurture, and care for their children. The first section reviews the limited research on the development of children of mothers with mental retardation, some existing parent training…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Child Rearing, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
Blacher, Jan, Ed.; Baker, Bruce L., Ed. – 2002
This volume brings together 32 papers on families and mental retardation. The papers were first published in journals of the American Association on Mental Retardation and date from 1935 through 1999. The papers are divided into four units within which the papers are presented chronologically. Essays introduce each unit. The first unit,…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Adults, Children, Coping
Garbarino, Jennifer; Thompson, Bruce – 2000
This study explored the development of attachment bonds in adolescents with diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and/or conduct disorder (CD). Participants included 102 mother/adolescent-child dyads from both rural and metropolitan areas and from six states. Subjects had received an ADHD diagnosis, a CD diagnosis, or a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Disorders

Waxman, Robyn P.; Spencer, Patricia E.; Poisson, Susan S. – Journal of Early Intervention, 1996
The Greenspan-Lieberman Observational System Revised was used to evaluate characteristics of dyadic interactions between 10 hearing mothers and hearing toddlers (HH), 10 deaf mothers and deaf toddlers (DD), and 10 hearing mothers and deaf toddlers (HD). Findings suggest that assessment instruments require some modifications and results must be…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Caregiver Speech, Deafness, Interaction Process Analysis
Feldman, Maurice A.; Walton-Allen, Nicole – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1997
Comparison of 27 school-aged impoverished children of mothers with mild mental retardation and 25 children of mothers without mental retardation found the children whose mothers had mental retardation had lower IQs, lower academic achievement, and more behavior problems. Boys were affected more severely than girls. Not one child with a mother who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Child Rearing, Elementary Secondary Education

Llewellyn, Gwynnyth; McConnell, David; Ferronato, Luisa – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2003
This study determined prevalence and outcome data on parents with disabilities and their children in statutory child-protection proceedings in New South Wales (Australia). Parents with disabilities (usually psychiatric or intellectual) featured in almost one-third of the cases. Court outcomes indicated a disproportionately large number of children…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Welfare, Court Litigation
Mandeville, Howard, Ed.; Anderson, Lynda, Ed.; Lakin, Charlie, Ed. – Impact, 1998
This feature issue focuses on strategies to support parents who have cognitive limitations to be successful in raising their children. Articles include: (1) "Encounters with Entropy: Marge's Journey from System to System" (John Franz and Pat Miles) that tells a fictional story of a mother with disabilities to illustrate the tendency of human…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Adults, Advocacy, Agency Cooperation