TY - JOUR
T1 - Demographics affecting parental expectations from early deaf intervention
AU - Ingber, Sara
AU - Dromi, Esther
PY - 2009/6
Y1 - 2009/6
N2 - Parent participation in rehabilitation programs for children with special needs requires program designers to accommodate each family's particular needs and characteristics. This study investigated maternal reports on various characteristics of 50 Israeli deaf preschoolers, their parents, and families, and examined these characteristics' links with mothers' expectations from early intervention. Characteristics linked with maternal expectations from intervention included: mother's pessimism, need for independence, ability to control her life, and receipt of practical assistance and formal and informal support; family's degree of communication and interaction; children's communication mode and age at onset of treatment; and additional deaf siblings in the family. A four-cluster model depicts the relations between mothers', families', and deaf children's attributes and the mothers' expectations, entailing recommendations for intervention planning.
AB - Parent participation in rehabilitation programs for children with special needs requires program designers to accommodate each family's particular needs and characteristics. This study investigated maternal reports on various characteristics of 50 Israeli deaf preschoolers, their parents, and families, and examined these characteristics' links with mothers' expectations from early intervention. Characteristics linked with maternal expectations from intervention included: mother's pessimism, need for independence, ability to control her life, and receipt of practical assistance and formal and informal support; family's degree of communication and interaction; children's communication mode and age at onset of treatment; and additional deaf siblings in the family. A four-cluster model depicts the relations between mothers', families', and deaf children's attributes and the mothers' expectations, entailing recommendations for intervention planning.
KW - Deaf
KW - Early intervention
KW - Family-centered
KW - Parent-professional collaboration
KW - Parental expectations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=67649397889&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/dei.257
DO - 10.1002/dei.257
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AN - SCOPUS:67649397889
SN - 1464-3154
VL - 11
SP - 83
EP - 111
JO - Deafness and Education International
JF - Deafness and Education International
IS - 2
ER -