Parental Stress of Mothers of Children with Learning Disabilities

Abstract

Parents are very much worried when their child’s academic performance declines. Early identification, remedial training and positive support from family are very important for the child to perform well. Present study focused on parental stress of mothers of children diagnosed with Learning disabilities. Participants include 224 mothers, in which 112 are mothers of children with learning disabilities and 112 are mothers of typically developing children. Instruments used for the study are socio demographic data and parental stress scale. Result of the ttest reveals that there is significant difference in the stress experienced by mothers of children with learning disabilities when compared with typically developing children. Result implies there is a high need of extending the evaluation and intervention to parents by providing services like counselling, social support group so that they can realize they are not alone and gain new knowledge to enchance coping startegies.