Literature Review On Raising A Special Needs Child

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Literature Review- Raising a Special Needs Child Literature Review- Raising a Special Needs Child Scientific research does not only apply to abstract theories and concepts but to issues that many individuals face daily such as caring for a special needs child as well. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) there is an estimated 15% of children ages three to seventeen years with more or more developmental disability in the United States (CDC, 2015). The United States Census Bureau reports that “…of the 53.9 million school-aged children (aged 5 to 17) in the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population, about 2.8 million (5.2 percent) were reported to have a disability in 2010” (Brault, 2011, p.1). The United …show more content…

These studies are essential to future studies to further understand the implications of raising children with disabilities. The first study looks at the effect of caring for children with disabilities on Australian mothers, the second study looks at a mindfulness training (MT) as a technique to assist parents in raising children with special needs and lastly a study in Japan highlights how teachers support parents with special needs. An Australian study from the Journal of Child & Family Studies researched the impact of caring for special needs children on the welfare of parents particularly mothers. Researchers Dillion-Wallace, McDonagh and Fordham (2014) found that mothers were the primary caregivers of 97% of children with special needs (p.1216). Their study examined how stable the state of the mothers’ wellbeing was over a continuous period of caring for a special needs child. In order to study the impact of caring for children with various physical, intellectual, developmental delays and conditions and all specialized care they require, the authors compared the well-being of two groups of mothers. The treatment group was the mothers that

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