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Download full textWalker, Pam – 1988
This report focuses on positive practices in providing support services to families of children with severe disabilities and chronic illnesses, based on visits to three sites in Maryland: the Family Support Program at the Kennedy Institute in Baltimore, the Coordinating Center for Home and Community Care, and Sick Kids Need Involved People (SKIP).…
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Delivery Systems, Family Programs, Financial Support
Ambler, Lana; Kupper, Lisa, Ed. – 1996
The challenges that families face in caring for a child with a disability or a chronic illness are reviewed in this report on respite care. A parent's narrative describes the difficulties in providing around-the-clock care to a child with a chronic illness. The benefits of respite care are outlined as follows: gives the family peace of mind,…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Children, Chronic Illness, Coping
