Prevention And Prevention Of A Parent

Every parent wants the best for their child, after all a child is a person’s most precious possession. For this very reason having a child with a learning disability becomes extremely stressful. Nathan V’s was a very outgoing child verbally articulate and a

The terms, special needs or disability, can bring into play negative images of a child with limitations beyond what a mother may imagine for their child. Therefore, let the parent be the first to term her child’s difference as a disability.

I believe that the parents of children with disabilities play a pivotal roll in the educational and social development of their children. When a child is diagnosed with a disability it leaves the parent with a lot of responsibility and difficult decisions to make. When parents start planning to have children, most of them do not expect to have a child with special needs. It is the parents’ responsibility to provide everything that they are capable of to give the child what they need to succeed regardless of what those needs may be.

Kristen Isgro highlights the challenges that the mothers and caregivers go through on a daily basis. Three groups of women, ages ranging from 33 to 66 and all having a child with Down syndrome, discussing the issues such as how they advocate for their children. They also discuss what they have learned from experience dealing with health care providers and educators, and deal with how their children are viewed in different settings.

Sadness, openness, concern, desperation, happiness, admiration—these are the feelings I experienced while reading the stories of different families and their perspectives as parents of children with disabilities. Each reading offered a different aspects through the eyes of mothers, fathers, and, most importantly, the person with the disability. Through the experiences of each individual, I was able to gather more insight into the feelings of my own family members and friends that have dealt with the same inner struggles, and in turn, realize my own short comings with understanding and the importance of person first language.

According to research, their reaction is typical, which reveals that learning about any difficulty or problem with your child’s development can be devastating and confusing (Partington, 2015). One mother attests that the diagnosis came as a tremendous blow. Another recalls that “the day my child was diagnosed as having a disability, I was overwhelmed and so confused that I recall little else

Disabilities can vary from individual to individual, but what does quality of life truly look like in the face of disability. The term undue hardship can provide a good understanding of the line between unable and unwilling to accommodate. Undue hardship can be defined as the inability to accommodate due to costs, or difficulty, upon the individual either emotionally, mentally, or physically (Dyck, 2013). Although this is often used in a business sense, it can equally apply, and provide a fair judgement of how to regulate restrictions. Although a family may not be able to take on the undue hardship of an infant with a disability, there are many families that can. Following the baby doe case, many potential families came forward looking to adopt, this is significant due to the attitudes and resources provided by those needed to sustain an infant’s life, and lessens the challenge of ongoing care when parents may decide to stop treatment (Fisher, 2013). Adoption provides a sound basis, and strong argument for the other courses of action to be followed, allowing the best possible option for both parent and child. The quality of a fetus’s life is also a large debate, relying largely on case by case scenarios. If a fetus has a good overall prognosis and can still live a functional life with their disability, there

My first goal was to learn more about how to work with, support, and help people with disabilities. Along with this goal, I wanted to become more familiar with the experience of working with this population. I am studying to become an occupational therapist and am currently interested in working mainly with disabled children. I am also interested in the elderly population, but through this experience at Windsong Equitherapy and some shadowing at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, I am leaning towards working with disabled children. Aside from this goal, I also wanted to learn how parents and families with disabilities cope with having a child with special needs and the effect this has on the

There has been an increase in the number of incidents (or rate) of ASD diagnoses, the important word being diagnoses. This could be due to a number of things, such as the change in the criteria for an autism diagnosis in the DSM-V (which has the potential to make it more likely a child with neuro-atypicalities will receive an autism diagnosis), increase in awareness of ASD (parents that suspect their child has autism will take them to be diagnosed to receive services), and improved information for clinicians (children with symptoms of autism are less likely to go undiagnosed and are diagnosed at younger ages). Infants can display predictive symptoms of autism and, while they are not immediately diagnosed, they can be “watched” and diagnosed

When children are referred to the Birth to Three Program that are believed to be a child with autism David uses the Autism Diagnostic Interview. “It gives a clearer picture of what exactly is happening with child compared the few minutes a physician may spend with child and make a quick judgement. Which happens more than people realize.” The Birth to Three program also utilizes the Kaufman Speech Praxis Test to help identify children with apraxia of speech. Besides being an initial assessment, the KSPT can be used to help progress monitor the child’s gains and growth. It is also in the best interest of the professional to observe, interview parents and people that are close with the child to gain an idea of the whole picture; not just what the normed assessment

Although the majority of causes of disabilities are unknown, there are things that pregnant and expecting mothers can do to try and prevent them. Many birth defects can prevented by simply having visits to the doctor to determine any possible risk factors that they may have, such as hereditary possibilities and health and lifestyle issues. Visits will also help to ensure that the mother has good prenatal care throughout her pregnancy. The public rise of prevention strategies and the universal access to health care help to reduce the number of children and families who are affected by disabilities (pg. 439-440).

For my final project I interviewed my mother’s friend Tammy Carnes who’s son is diagnosed with cerebral palsy. During our interview we discussed what it is like we raise a child with a disability, and how the educational system aided in dealing with her child’s everyday needs. After completing this interview I feel a little more understanding of how the parent of said child may feel when dealing with the educational system meeting their child’s particular needs. A high point of the interview was Ms. Carnes’s surprise to the amount of dedication the educational system is making to ensure their teachers are well prepared for the different types of disabilities children may have. A part of the interview that surprised me was how truly patient

There are several issues related to parental reactions to having a child with a disability. Having a child with a disability can have an effect on family dynamics as well as a change in work habits, some parents have to work fewer hours, change jobs, or become a stay at home parent in order to properly care for their child’s needs. Parents cope with their guilt, feelings, and public reactions

This article is about child care the health and development as well as the cost and savings of parenting interventions of the results of a systematic review.The systematic review of economic evaluations of universal preventative or targeted treatment parenting interventions that aim to enhance parent infant interaction is primarily intended to inform decision makers who have to make difficult spending decisions, especially at a time of reduced spending allocations. A synthesis of available costs and savings about parenting interventions that set out to enhance parent infant interaction is presented. This specifically in view of the UK Government's emphasis on the equalities agenda and the early years. The benefits of positive early life experiences,

Nevertheless, it would be easy to believe that half of our population can fit in a mental disorder because the DSM has become broader making continuum of disorder, thus if somebody is not entirely bipolar, he/she might fall into the depressive category. Similarly, it happens with Autism, Aspeger’s, and Pervasive Developmental disorders that have been integrated into a single Autism Spectrum Disorder. Now, the impact of a diagnosis can be more profound for a parent since the cause and the cure of autism are unknown. For a child that is high functioning, has good academic standing and has some social abilities, it is more hopeful to call him Asperger than to call him autistic. There are many stories of Asperger or PDD children that through ABA therapy have been able to succeed at school and create a richer social life. However, not many of these stories are told about low functioning autistic, so this could produce more negative emotions on parents than what the way it was