May 30, 2012

This article is very interesting. This article is about how poverty affects families who have a child with a disability. It has a lot of great information about this topic that may not have a lot of research on it.

http://www.beachcenter.org/research/FullArticles/PDF/FQL1_Impacts%20of%20poverty%20on%20Quality.pdf

May 30, 2012

I found this article interesting. It is about how mothers of special needs have needs too. It is interesting because the question could be asked, Do mothers have more responsibility over children with special needs? I think this could go either way depending on who is raising the children and who is also helping raise the child. But the article is very interesting to read. The article may seem biased but it is interesting to read. There are also other links that could help a parent.

http://www.stressfreekids.com/5428/special-needs-moms-families

May 22, 2012

This article is also very informative for teachers, parents and other people interested in how stress affects families with children with cerebral palsy. It also shows how stereotypes can also affects families and children with cerebral palsy.

http://snowdrop-snowdropblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/relationship-crises-of-parents-of.html

May 21, 2012

My blog this week will focus on 'STRESS AMONG  MOTHERS OF  CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY ATTENDING SPECIAL SCHOOLS'. I thought this article was interesting because it focuses on mothers of children with cerebral palsy. It is also all about stress and how it affects the mothers and children with cerebral palsy.

http://www.aifo.it/english/resources/online/apdrj/apdrj107/cpalsy-vijesh.pdf

Here is the basics on Cerebral Palsy:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001734/

May 15, 2012

I found a four part video on parents who have children with disabilities. This videos cover daily life and everything else in between.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_ZxlXoZxY     PART 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1cVrzYvGjY&feature=relmfu      PART 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRlLffdZ_Ns&feature=relmfu      PART 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_M0yEbMnQg&feature=relmfu    PART 4

The videos are very interesting and a good view with great information on how parents of children with disabilities go through their daily life.

May 14, 2012

This week i want to focus on how parents deal with stress if they have children with disabilities. Parents of children with special needs can have many different stresses depending on the severity of the disability. Since i am not a parent, i do not know the stress of having a typically developing child let alone a child with a disability. I found an article on parental stress with children with disabilities.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2009/02/19/parental-stress-with-special-needs-children/4219.html

The article gave good insight to on how stress can affect parents.

May 8, 2012

On the article from yesterday, there were some things to take away from the article on the side of it. They were:

• Children are increasingly more stressed in the school environment
• Children with learning disabilities often suffer greater stress at school
• Children who are disinterested in school and activities are most likely suffering from stress

I thought these three bullets i think are very relevant to my blog and to my topic this week. They also show how children with disabilities can feel a lot of stress at school.

Another part from the article said: Special education classes are designed to assist the child in not only achieving their own academic excellence but doing so in a setting that is conducive to their learning style.

Students with disabilities need these special classroom so that they dont feel as stressed at school.