Mothers of adolescents and adults with autism: Parenting multiple children with disabilities

Gael I. Orsmond, G. Yi Lin, Marsha Mailick Seltzer

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摘要

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.

原文English
頁(從 - 到)257-270+293
期刊Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
45
發行號4
DOIs
出版狀態Published - 2007 8月

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • 兒科、圍產兒和兒童健康
  • 教育
  • 發展與教育心理學
  • 社區和家庭護理
  • 精神病學和心理健康

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