RP & SE 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: 2-Step Garage, Intellectual Disability, Family Therapy
10 Oct 2016
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Most parents are not fully prepared for responsibility of raising a child with disabilities. The role of the family generally stay the same with a child with disabilities. Parental involvement is crucial to success of the educational experience. Parent-professional relationships: changing roles: especially for children with disabilities. Parents are seen as collaborators and equal partners with professionals: has not always been this way, parents used to take more passive role. Eugenics movement: campaign that sought to improve quality of humankind through. Antagonistic and adversarial relationship carefully controlled selective breeding: forbade marriages between individuals with intellectual disability and called for their sterilization, lost influence by middle of 20th century, provided foundation that parents were cause for child"s disability. Refrigerator moms: mothers who were cold, detached, uncaring, and rigid: caused disability to children. Professional dominance when dealing with children with disabilities: mid-1940s and early 1970s. Mishandling by professionals led many parents to seek change.
