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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
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)