H. Daoud, MD, FRCS, Lecturer, McGill University, Montreal; Lake Shore Hospital. Montreal. T. O’Farrell. MD. BSc, CSPQ. Assistant Professor, Department ofOrthopaedic Surgery, McGill University. Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal: Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, 1529 Cedar Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1A6. R. L. Cruess. MD, FRCS(C). Dean ofthe Faculty ofMedicine, McIntyre Medical ...

Increasing children’s and young people’s participation in decisions, about their own care and about service development, is a policy priority. Although in general participation is increasing, disabled children are less likely to be involved than nondisabled children and it is unclear to what extent children with complex needs or communication impairments are being included in participation acti...

Data on the incomes of families with a severely disabled child were obtained by replicating the Family Expenditure Survey. These data were compared with income data from a control group of families with children, drawn from the FES for the same period. The participation rates, hours, and earnings of the women with a disabled child were all found to be substantially lower than those of women in ...

BACKGROUND Parents of disabled children often seek support from their peers. The shared experience between parents appears to be a crucial mediating factor. Understanding how a sense of shared experience is fostered can help to design and evaluate services that seek to provide peer support. METHODS We carried out a qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews and focus groups. Parti...

BACKGROUND Parents of disabled children are encouraged to seek peer support. Delivering one-to-one support requires resources; therefore, investigating how these services may impact on families and those providing the service is important when evaluating such services. METHODS We carried out a qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews and focus groups. Participants were 12 parent...

Community-based peer social networks of young boys with developmental delays and parental arranging and monitoring of their child's peer contacts were examined. Comparisons were made to matched groups of children who were developing typically and to children with communication disorders. Results showed more limited peer social networks for both groups of children with disabilities based primari...

This paper aimed to investigate the role of parental education in child disability in China. We used nationally representative data from China's National Sample Survey on Disability, iterated twice, in 1987 and 2006, with data of 764,718 children aged 0-14 years. Logit models were used for statistical analysis. Results showed that the prevalence of child disability was significantly associated ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the community response of how American Indian families adapt to having school age children with disabilities in two diverse American Indian communities. An ethnographic design was utilized to construct a taxonomy about family adjustment of American Indian families with disabilities. Community Assessment interviews were conducted with 143 community member...

The Office of Research and Statistics, under a contract with Urban Systems Research and Engineering, Inc., performed a national personal survey of blind and disabled children receiving supplemental security income (SSI) benefits. The purpose of the survey was to provide descriptive characteristics of the children and their families as well as assess SSI's effect on them. The survey has provided...