Analysis of Support for Parents in Raising Children with Dyslexia

Abstract

The parents of children with dyslexia often experience more parenting stress and depressive symptoms compared to other parents. Studies have shown that supporting and encouraging such parents help in reducing their frustrations, fear, anger, and low self-esteem towards their children. The purpose of this study was to identify and examine the different types of support needed by the parents of children with dyslexia and to explore the relationships between the required support with the parents’ marital status. Fifty questionnaires were distributed to the parents of children with dyslexia and analyzed. The findings showed that the type of support needed for parents of children with dyslexia could be grouped into social, peer-to-peer, financial, and government support. Furthermore, the analysis indicated that there were no significant differences between the social (p = 0.4014), peer-to-peer (p = 0.5020), and government (p = 0.7121) support with parents’ marital status. However, based on one-way ANOVA analysis, there was a significant difference found between the parents’ marital status and financial support (p = 0.0241). Accordingly, it is anticipated that the implication of this research could be used as a guide and a reference for supporting and encouraging parents of children with dyslexia and other learning disabilities.

Educational Intervention through a Board Game for the Teaching of Mathematics to Dyslexic Greek Students

“…The result is that children with dyslexia have negative emotions about their self-image and relationships with classmates and family. In terms of social interaction, children with dyslexia lack social skills due to stress or low self-esteem and have problems with adapting themselves to social circumstances (Abd Rauf et al 2020). Additionally, the incidence of anxiety and depression in children with dyslexia is also higher than in typical children, with more negative behaviours, higher suicide rates and increased antisocial behaviours (Abd Rauf et al 2018).…”