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  • What should I do now? Exploring family roles and relationships when a child has a disability. The grandparent's perspective.

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    Woodbridge, Sandra
    Clapton, Jayne Ruth
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    Clapton, Jayne R.
    Woodbridge, Sandra
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    Through listening to the grandparents' perspective, this study sought to identify whether the roles and relationships grandparents had with their grandchild with a disability were somehow different to those they had with their other grandchildren and their wider family. METHOD: Interviews were conducted with a total of 22 grandmothers and grandfathers who had a least one child with a disability, aged under the age of 17 years. The children's disabilities included De Georges' Syndrome, spina bifda, autism and cerebral palsy. RESULTS: The expectations, perceptions and experiences of the grandparents were openly explored. ...
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    Through listening to the grandparents' perspective, this study sought to identify whether the roles and relationships grandparents had with their grandchild with a disability were somehow different to those they had with their other grandchildren and their wider family. METHOD: Interviews were conducted with a total of 22 grandmothers and grandfathers who had a least one child with a disability, aged under the age of 17 years. The children's disabilities included De Georges' Syndrome, spina bifda, autism and cerebral palsy. RESULTS: The expectations, perceptions and experiences of the grandparents were openly explored. These provided important insight into the challenges which had arisen for them and for their families, These challenges changed the nature of their identity and roles as a grandparent, and in some cases their role within the wider family and community. Grandparents used their prior knowledge and coping skills to enhance the quality of life of their grandchild and provide unconditional love and support for their own child. CONCLUSIONS: Grandparenting a child with a disability has been described as a roller coaster ride of emotions. However despite this journey, this paper will identify the important contribution grandparents make to the lives of their grandchildren including those with disabilities.
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    Conference Title
    Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
    Publisher URI
    https://iassid.org/conference/index.php/HPC/2012IWC
    Copyright Statement
    © 2012 Blackwell Publishing. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the conference's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
    Medical and Health Sciences
    Education
    Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/53922
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