Parenting Children with Developmental Delays: Family Dynamics
Different Styles of Interpreting Communicative Interactions: Mother-Child with Down Syndrome
Maternal styles: attention, sensitivity, persistence, guidance to the child, quality of demand, quality of information. The development of verbal communication in children is best when the management style of communicative interaction of mothers is characterized by greater sensitivity, that is when it focuses on maintaining communication with the child, responds to the issues raised, and is interested in both the child and performing actions.
Patterns of Interaction with Parents and Children with School Delay
S styles tend to show concern for managers and teach your child what makes the interaction slightly relaxed and enjoyable. In short, the style that best benefits created for the development is one that combines some directivity with sensitivity to the needs of the child.
Daily Life in Families with Children with Developmental Delay
Parents with children with disabilities are concerned about providing what they consider appropriate care, supervision, and stimulation to their children, building a special niche for their development.
Everyday Activities are Different in the Case of Father and Mother and are Done with Different Styles
- Mother: Has more load and more responsibility for the child, does not expect much help from grandparents but they value their participation in the game. Instructional mothers tend to be more dominant and demanding.
- Father: Little involved in activities of daily play and more outdoor activities, TV, or physical play. Participation tends to be more active when the child is older and begins to speak.
Environmental Factors Involved in the Process of Accommodation for Families with Children with Delay
- The mother stops working to care for the child; the father is still in the same service for access to better services.
- The family often lives in areas with easy access to support services.
- They move to a bigger house, change the furniture to be safer.
- The mother gives more attention to children and is less often at home and hires staff for cleaning.
- Older siblings participate in child care.
- They only let their children play with other children at home.
- Relationships are strengthened.
- The father is more involved in housework and child care.
Intervention in Family Situations of Stress
- Increasing the competence of the child, changing perceptions about the level of parental competence and the child’s needs, and reviewing values and beliefs.
- Consider protective factors such as:
- Promoting better relations among family members.
- Creating appropriate styles of coping with stress.
- Expanding support networks for parents.
Considerations When Parents Educate Their Child
- To help meet the care and upbringing of the child.
- Involving parents in sensory stimulation, motor, and temporal communication.
- Teaching to adopt a more relaxed and reciprocal attitude.
- Understand the organization and structuring of daily life.
- Educate the family to see it as natural to ask for help and use available resources in the community.