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Gardiner, Emily; Iarocci, Grace – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Research on families living with developmental disability generally and autism specifically is dominated by a deficit view that elicits an elaborate representation of problems and risks without the benefit of considering families' potential for adaptation and resilience. A central tenet of developmental psychopathology is that the study of…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Quality of Life, Family (Sociological Unit), Developmental Disabilities
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Brown, Roy I.; MacAdam-Crisp, Jacqueline; Wang, Mian; Iarocci, Grace – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2006
The conceptualization of individual quality of life is reasonably well established, and now family quality of life and intellectual disability is emerging as an important field of study. This article examines comparative family quality of life in three types of families: those with a child who has Down syndrome, those with a child with autism, and…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Autism, Quality of Life, Developmental Disabilities