Assessment of family support to rural disabled children
| dc.contributor.author | Yadwinder Kaur | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-07T09:48:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-04-07T09:48:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The study was conducted to assess the family support provided to rural disabled children. The age of the focus child was below 12 years. The sample consisted of 150 families having children with either of the four disabilities viz orthopedically challenged, mentally challenged, speech and hearing challenged and having multiple disability. The study was conducted in the rural areas of Ludhiana and Sangrur districts, taking 100 families from Ludhiana districts and 50 families from Sangrur district. A self structured interview schedule was used for data collection. Observations were also recorded during home visits. Results revealed that parental way of understanding the disabled child affected the quantity and quality of care provided to the disabled child. Family type, number of siblings and working status of parents influenced the care of the disabled child. Disabled child needs extra time for his/her care. Their needs must be understood by the family members. But when these needs were not understood, the care was affected to large extent and leads to irritated behaviour of the family members towards the disabled child. Lack of parental knowledge, economic problems and lack of resources affected the care. Quantity and quality of care was also associated with the parenting style followed by the parents to understand their child, to fulfill their needs and to socialize them in an effective way. Sibling relationship was different when one of the sibling is disabled. Siblings feel neglected and target of frustration of their parents which was due to their disabled sibling. They had feelings of love and care towards their disabled siblings. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810006913 | |
| dc.keywords | Family support, family stress, sibling relationship, parenting style | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana | en_US |
| dc.sub | Human Development and Family Studies | |
| dc.subject | null | en_US |
| dc.theme | Human Development | en_US |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessment of family support to rural disabled children | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |