Parenting Education Programs

Parents with Intellectual Disabilities: Past, Present and Futures

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 119-136

  Feldman, Maurice ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basicchildcare, safety, nutrition, problem solving, positive parent child interactions and child behavior management; Child socialization, teaching or socialization oflinguistic and cognitive development; Childcare or socialization of healthy physical development; Human services, enabling and disabling parents with intellectual disabilities; International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability (IASSID); Parent education practitioners needing unique set of competencies; Parent education programs for parents with intellectual disabilities; Parenting by people with intellectual disabilities; Parenting education programs; Principles and practice in efficacious parent education programs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886194320     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470660393.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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