Raising a child with a congenital anomaly or other chronic medical problem challenges
families. Although most families are resilient, depending on families' relative balance of …

Recent advances are reviewed in understanding the heightened prevalence of
psychopathology and maladaptive behavior among children with intellectual disability …

Researchers commonly report that families of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
experience more parenting stress than families of typically developing (TD) children or those …

Background Children with intellectual disability are at heightened risk for behaviour
problems and diagnosed mental disorder. Methods The present authors studied the early …

The psychological well-being of mothers raising a child with a developmental disability
varies with the nature of the disability. Most research, however, has been focused on Down …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

This community-based study examined the influence of early teaching interventions on
children diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, and the dynamics between the time …

The present paper focuses on the integration of two research foci in the field of
developmental disability: models of the development and maintenance of children's problem …

Two 9-to 10-month-long studies (N= 137) examined the interaction between parenting stress
and behavior problems in children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs). Study 1 focused …

To date, much of the research linking the stress of caring for children with developmental
disabilities (eg Autism & Down syndrome) with parental health outcomes have tended to …