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A Study of the Experiences of Parents with Home-Schooled Pre-Adolescent Children with Severe Multiple Health Problems
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Obeng, Cecilia – International Journal of Special Education, 2010
This study examines the difficulties encountered by parents caring for pre-adolescent children who have severe multiple health problems. Working within the frameworks of narrative psychotherapy (Spence, 1982; Viederman & Perry, 1980; Vitz, 1992; Benjamin, 1998), the researcher examined parents' discourses and identified the strategies they…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Coping, Home Schooling, Preadolescents
One Family's Journey: Medical Home and the Network of Supports It Offers Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs. Part One
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MacDonald, Sarah; Gatto, Molly; Walker, Deb; Turchi, Renee – Exceptional Parent, 2007
This is the first article in a year long series that presents the experiences of a fictitious couple, Amita and Samir, as they learn to adapt to the reality of having a premature baby with special needs. Doris, the fictitious nurse who took care of baby Anjali in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), has had ten years of experience working in…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Child Health, Child Rearing, Case Method (Teaching Technique)
Children with Down Syndrome: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach.
Van Dyke, Don; And Others – Exceptional Parent, 1986
Programs and centers which use a multidisciplinary approach to treat the special developmental and biomedical needs of individuals with Down's syndrome are described, and the locations of several centers are presented as well as a guide to medical problems common in such individuals. (CB)
Descriptors: Cardiovascular System, Clinics, Dental Health, Disease Incidence