TY - JOUR
T1 - Mothers of adolescents and adults with autism
T2 - Parenting multiple children with disabilities
AU - Orsmond, Gael I.
AU - Lin, G. Yi
AU - Seltzer, Marsha Mailick
PY - 2007/8
Y1 - 2007/8
N2 - We examined types of disabilities in siblings from a large sample of families of adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and the impact of another child with a disability on maternal and family well-being. The most frequent disabilities in siblings were attention and hyperactivity (4.6%) and autism spectrum (2.4%) disorders and psychiatric (2.1%) and learning (2.0%) disabilities. Mothers parenting another child with a disability (in addition to the child with ASD) had higher levels of depressive symptoms and anxiety and lower family adaptability and cohesion compared with mothers whose only child with a disability had ASD (matched on child age and family size). Findings are discussed with respect to understanding the needs of such families, including service provision.
AB - We examined types of disabilities in siblings from a large sample of families of adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and the impact of another child with a disability on maternal and family well-being. The most frequent disabilities in siblings were attention and hyperactivity (4.6%) and autism spectrum (2.4%) disorders and psychiatric (2.1%) and learning (2.0%) disabilities. Mothers parenting another child with a disability (in addition to the child with ASD) had higher levels of depressive symptoms and anxiety and lower family adaptability and cohesion compared with mothers whose only child with a disability had ASD (matched on child age and family size). Findings are discussed with respect to understanding the needs of such families, including service provision.
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U2 - 10.1352/1934-9556(2007)45[257:MOAAAW]2.0.CO;2
DO - 10.1352/1934-9556(2007)45[257:MOAAAW]2.0.CO;2
M3 - Article
C2 - 17627373
AN - SCOPUS:34548030467
SN - 1934-9556
VL - 45
SP - 257-270+293
JO - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
JF - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
IS - 4
ER -