scholarly journals DIFFICULTIES FACED BY FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND THEIR NEEDS FOR SOCIAL SERVICES IN HO CHI MINH CITY

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
Nga Hanh Do
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Developmental Delays ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
Specialized Schools ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
The City ◽  
Children With Developmental Disabilities

This paper analyzes difficulties of families with handicapped children and their needs for social services. The data collected from 105 parents of children with developmental disabilities attending specialized schools in the city revealed the time they discovered signs of their children's developmental delays, difficult familial problems after the discovery, and the desire to be supported by the society. Survey outcomes showed parents’ lack of knowledge about signs of child developmental delay, shortage of social workers to assist them in the early detection, diagnosis and assessments of their child's disability, as well as to help parents look for social services; thereby, proposing some tasks to be fulfilled by social workers to support families with child developmental disabilities.

Examining the Needs of Culturally Diverse Rural Caregivers who Have Adults with Severe Developmental Disabilities Living with Them

2000 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ann Gammon
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Developmental Delays ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Service Needs ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Rural Caregivers ◽  
Severe Developmental Disabilities ◽  
And Coping

This article presents the results of a study of rural caregivers who have adults with severe developmental delays living at home with them. It examines their demographic characteristics, their perceived levels of stress, and the coping skills they use to deal with that stress. This article provides information on the availability and utilization of social services for the adults with mental retardation and developmental disabilities (MR/DD) and their families. In addition, the service needs, stresses experienced, and coping skills of these families are examined according to majority and minority racial status. This type of information should be valuable to policy makers, agency administrators, and program planners to improve the development, targeting, and accessibility of rural programs and services. For the purpose of this study, the term “developmental disability” refers to both mental and physical delays and is sometimes represented as MR/DD, which is consistent with the literature on this population.

scholarly journals PRUŽANJE SOCIJALNIH USLUGA DJECI S TEŠKOĆAMA U RAZVOJU: ULOGA SOCIJALNOG RADNIKA ZAPOSLENOG U USTANOVI SOCIJALNE SKRBI

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 257-271
Author(s):  
Ada Filipaj ◽  
Marko Buljevac
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Support Providers ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
Welfare Institution ◽  
Children With Developmental Disabilities

PROVIDING SOCIAL SERVICES TO CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: THE ROLE OF A SOCIAL WORKER EMPLOYED IN A SOCIAL WELFARE INSTITUTION The aim of this paper is to present social worker’s job in social facility for children with developmental disabilities. The work of a social worker is described through its parts: work with users, work with user’s families, cooperation with various formal support providers, counselling, and finally social worker as a member of the professional team. These parts of the work are described and problematized. In the last part of this paper, the most common problems faced by social worker in his daily work are problematized. Key words: social work with families of children with developmental disabilities; social work in social facilities; social worker job description

Patterns of Cognition, Communication, and Adaptive Behavior in Children With Developmental Disabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 126 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-340
Author(s):  
Phebe Albert ◽  
MaryAnn Romski ◽  
Rose A. Sevcik ◽  
Robin D. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Adaptive Behavior ◽  
Developmental Delays ◽  
Adaptive Functioning ◽  
Expressive Language ◽  
Adaptive Skills ◽  
Developmental Domains ◽  
Caregiver Report ◽  
Children With Developmental Disabilities

Abstract Young children with developmental disabilities (DD) exhibit a range of strengths and weaknesses in cognitive, language, and adaptive skills. Identifying individual patterns of abilities across these domains is important for informing interventions. This study examines how 129 toddlers with significant developmental delays and less than 10 spoken words perform across different developmental domains and assessment methods (i.e., caregiver report and clinician-administered tests). Children exhibited statistically and clinically meaningful strengths and weaknesses across developmental domains, which may have important implications for differential interventions. Caregiver-reported and clinician-rated measures of cognition, language and adaptive functioning were highly related. However, the relation between caregiver report and clinician ratings was weaker for a subgroup of children with relatively more limited expressive language compared to other children in the sample.

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