Original Research Article
Year: 2019 | Month: May | Volume: 9 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 322-331
Resilience and Vulnerability in Parents of Child with Intellectual Disability (ID)
Krishan Kumar1, Deepalatha R2
1PGIMER, Chandigarh.
2TISS, Mumbai
Corresponding Author: Krishan Kumar
ABSTRACT
Intellectual disability (ID) can found around the world, a estimation 2 to 3% of population suffer with ID. Person with ID face difficulty in physical activities, social learning, motor activities in day to day life. This is not individual problem, it brings several other problems and affects individual with ID as well as people attach to him/her. Parents are intimate care giver to any child; therefore children with ID are also their responsibility. Parents face multiple difficulties in physical care, financial arrangement for treatment, social exclusion, social stigma etc. these difficulties expose them to several psychosomatic issues. So dealing with these psychosocial issues, we must need to understand parent’s difficulties. Present study aims to lighten the positive and negative impacts on parents. This study targets parents of children with ID, studying in special school in Puducherry (UT). With help of structured tool, Mothers and fathers both interviewed. Mothers face more difficulties’ compare to fathers and they found with high positive as well as negative impact. Mothers make high carrier adjustment and face loss of social support because of having child ID. Mothers observed with high resilience compare to male counter parts.
Key words: Intellectual disability (ID), Resilience, Vulnerability