Brief outlines of the parent/family reaction to childhood disability in families from 3 ethnic minority groups
✍ Scribed by C. J. Leonard
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 533 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0165-0653
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✦ Synopsis
The giving birth to a disabled child is the fulfilment of one of the greatest fears of expectant parents. The shock, dismay and stigmata involved are likely to be very profound. (1,2). The ways in which people deal with such catastrophe needs to be understood so that as many as possible of the disadvantages which accrue to families with disabled children can be overcome.
Three families are described briefly with rather sparse detail for the sake of brevity. Likewise their biographies are vere foreshortened. Each family has been registered with the same doctor in West London who has been involved with the sustaining and understanding of the family, the support of various members of the family and the orchestration of social help as and when this was acceptable or available.