Impact of Child Disability on Family...
Before, I begin to further investigate my original questions: "How families cope with the stress of having a child with a disability?" and "How many families remain in tact, divorce, etc" I want to deepen my knowledge of the impact of child disability on the family. What are the child's needs? How must the family adapt and accommodate to meet their child's needs? How do these changes affect the family's everyday life? Do theses changes cause the family stress? Essentially, how is the family dynamic affected by having a child with a disability?
Families with disabled children represent a sizeable share of all American households. Living with a disabled child can have profound effects on the entire family, which in turn can affect the health and well-being of the child who is disabled. Much needs to be learned about how children’s health affects their parents, siblings, and other family members and about how family characteristics and resources modify those associations. I have found an article the reviews what is known about the effects of child disability on the family, provides an overview of the complex needs of and multitude of resources available to families of disabled children, and concludes with suggested directions for practice, research, and public policy ((Reichman, Corman & Noonan, 2007).
This is something I have been researching within my blog. Research has shown that families whom live with a disabled child, have higher stress than those of typical families. The article provides a lot of resourceful information about the effects of a disability can have on one child.
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