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Helping Parents Deal With the fact their Child has a Disability About: This article provides information on the types and stages of adjustment parents feel or go through when first learning their child has a disability and of the looming recovery process, up to reaching acceptance. Retrieved from: http://www.ldonline.org/article/5937/ 2. Raising a Child with Disability the Raising Children Network About: Featuring Services and Support, Disability rights and the Law, a guide to disabilities, family life and the services pathfinder to help parents of children with disabilities, this site basically is a hub that helps parents find much needed help and services for their families in dealing with disability. Retrieved from: http://raisingchildren.net.au/children_with_disabilities/children_with_disability.html 3. Siblings Making Adjustments About: This short video features stories from parents and siblings of children with disability. They talk about how theyve made adjustments to their lives. Theyve become more mature, self-sufficient, independent and organized. They note that siblings of children with disability sometimes get less attention and are often forced to grow up more quickly than usual. Retrieved from: http://raisingchildren.net.au/articles/disabilities_helping_siblings_video.html/context/ 1000 4. Helping Children with Learning Disabilities: Tips for Parents About: This article discusses tips for parents, giving helpful ideas to enable the parent to see the bigger picture in how to help the development of a child with a disability. Furthermore, it gives helpful ideas on the areas parents may want to address, in order to give their child(ren) the social and emotional tools he or she needs to work through challenges. Thus helping their child(ren) grow stronger and more resilient. Retrieved from: http://www.helpguide.org/mental/learning_disabilities_treatment_help_coping.htm 5. Disablism and Family Life About : This article gives a brief overview of the findings from the research carried out by The University of Sydney on the experience of families with children with impairment using the social model (as articulated by Carol Thomas (1999)). This study found evidence of disabling material barriers in family life in constraints on mothers participating in the paid workforce, reduced family income, restrictions in family leisure opportunities, and problematic interactions with services. That is, much of the disadvantage in family life for families with children with impairment was socially created, rather than an inevitable consequence of their childs impairment. The results of the study also demonstrated that although families psycho-emotional wellbeing was not undermined in the same way that Thomas described for individual

women with impairment, nevertheless prejudice experienced by families prevented them from participating in social life on an equal footing with their peers. Retrieved from: http://sydney.edu.au/healthsciences/afdsrc/families/completed/disablism.shtml 6. Families with multiple and complex needs -Best interests case practice model Specialist practice resource About: This resource from the Victorian State Governments Human Services consists of two parts: Part One is an overview of issues and considerations relevant to families with multiple and complex needs, and Part Two contains practice tools to guide you when working with these families. Retrieved from: http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/721880/Families-withmultiple-and-complex-needs-specialist-resource.pdf 7. Parents of Disabled Children - Their "Today" About: This video gives a small insight on experiences, thoughts and feelings of parents of disabled children. A must watch video on their everyday realities. Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDKvGoxbUos 8. How to talk to your child about people with disabilities About: This article from the Washington Post is about how parents can talk to their children about children with Down syndrome or other disabilities. It speaks of how much awareness has developed the way people think and approach matters dealing with disabilities. The article interviews Michelle Sie Whitten, the executive director of the Global Down Syndrome Foundation and gives her thoughts on why parents find it hard to discuss children with disabilities to their children. Retrieved from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2014/04/28/how-to-talk-toyour-child-about-people-with-disabilities/