Areas of Potential Stress for Families with Special Needs Children
Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Topics: Middle Years (5-9), Parent's Guide to Special Education, more...
- Shattered dream of the perfect child
- Difference in the child's looks
- Increased attention requirements
- Increased routine-caregiving difficulty
- Parent, family, and societal attitudes towards disabilities
- Frustration
- Humiliation
- Lowered self-esteem
- Time reduction with other family members
- Loss of friends and other relationships
- Avoidance of social situations/events
- Loss of rewards for parents
- Lack of specific information
- Increased childrearing costs
- Medical concerns
- Conflict of opinions
- Confused expectations
- Problems in communication with family members
- Questions concerning the future
- Vulnerability of the child
Excerpted From:
Excerpt from Families and Children with Special Needs: Professional and Family Partnerships, by T.E. Smith & B.C. Gartin & N.L. Murdick & A. Hilton, 2006 edition, p. 62.
© 2006, Merrill, an imprint of Pearson Education Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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