Association of Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorders and Loss of Family Income

Montes, Guillermo; Halterman, Jill S.

doi:10.1542/peds.2007-1594

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“…Several studies have estimated the salaries of parents of children with ASD at between 10 and 20% less than parents of children without ASD (Bone & Meltzer, 1989;Birenbaum & Cohen, 1993;Beecham et al, 2000;Järbrink & Knapp, 2001;Montes & Halterman, 2008). In the United States, this averages to about $17,763 in lost wages per family, with parents of children with ASD working an average of five hours less weekly than parents of children without ASD (Cidav, Marcus & Mandell, 2011).…”

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Employment experiences of parents of children with ASD or ADHD: an exploratory study

Hill

Jones

Lang

et al. 2014

International Journal of Developmental Disabilities

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Parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often hindered by their carer status as they seek to obtain and maintain employment opportunities. These parents can incur financial, social and psychological distress related to their inabilities to commit to the demands of a typical work environment. This paper seeks to identify the course of employment for parents following a child's diagnosis. This paper also seeks to delineate factors that influence continued employment despite carer status, as well as the factors that prevent continued employment. A sample of 10 parents of children with a primary diagnosis of ASD and a sample of 10 parents of children with a primary diagnosis of ADHD were interviewed concerning their employment experiences before and after the diagnoses of their children. The interviews were analysed using interpretive phenomenological analysis and produced several discrete themes.Participants identified a desire for normality, as well as financial motivation, as the primary factors determining continued employment. These parents also reported various barriers to employment such as lack of availability of adequate childcare, colleague and manager misunderstanding, inflexible organisational policies, and inaccessibility of opportunity. These findings offer a qualitative overview of the vocational struggles of parents of children with ADHD and ASD while implying the necessity of support and education for this oftenoverlooked group of carers, as well as those who employ them.

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Employment experiences of parents of children with ASD or ADHD: an exploratory study

Hill

Jones

Lang

et al. 2014

International Journal of Developmental Disabilities

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“…The aggregate national costs of supporting children with ASD were estimated to be £2.7 billion each year in the UK (Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities 2007). Childhood ASD is associated with a substantial loss of annual household income (Montes and Halterman 2008). Among the health care concerns for children with ASD is a major need to strengthen the awareness and treatment of its associated medical conditions with standardized, comprehensive approaches to evaluation, treatment, and monitoring (Lajonchere et al 2012).…”

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Medical Care Burden of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Lin

2014

Rev J Autism Dev Disord

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This paper aims to examine health care utilization and expenditure in the provision of medical care to understand the medical care burden of children with autism spectrum disorders based on recent literature reviews. This article reviews the recent literature in Medline, PubMed, and Google by using key terms that are relevant to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and health care (medical care) utilization, medical care costs, and expenditures. I also hand-searched the reference lists of all of the included articles and recent narrative and systematic reviews related to medical care utilization and the costs of ASD to identify potentially relevant articles. The literature on medical care utilization and expenditures related to ASD highlights the fact that the disorder imposes high medical care burdens on families and on society. It is necessary to initiate appropriate, comprehensive, and accessible medical care services for individuals with ASD, particularly for those with comorbid conditions. Future studies should examine the impact of such improvements in the management of children with ASD on medical care utilization and costs.

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“…Child care and burdening the family income revealed in one of the studies examined here is the parents of children with autism have significant out-of-pocket expenditures related to their child's care. 23 The impact of having a child with autism on household income is not known. Has been reviewed which has been revealed the fact of financial burn outs in the parents' ASD child.…”

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“…The average loss of annual income associated with having a child with autism spectrum disorder was $6200 or 14% of their reported income. 23 This study had theorized that childhood autism is associated with a substantial loss of annual household income. This likely places a significant burden on families in the face of additional out-of-pocket expenditures.…”

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The Peripheral Focus on the Psychological Parameters of Parents of Autistic Children in the Intervention Methods: A Review and Recommending the Strategy, Focusing Psychological Parameters of Parents of Autistic Children in Intervention Methods

Bhagat¹,

Simba²,

Haque³

2015

J YOUNG PHARM

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The experience of parents with an Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) can be devastating. Parents and families have to cope with the compound, demanding situation in their life. The presence of pervasive and severe deficits in children with ASD increases the adjusting demands of parent's in their life situations. Those coping with life complexity with the parents of ASD nudge them into stress later into distress slowly incapacitates them that of their efficiency to deal with this situation. These parents are found with disturbances in their psychological parameters such as social, sexual, economic, and emotional. Perhaps this shatters them from their interpersonal relationship and family life. Indeed, these aspects of parental distress stand lower in position, and the focus goes with the treatment of ASD. Thus, the management of ASD by these parents to their deficit child capacitating to reach their fullest abilities remains questionable. Thus, there is a need for intervention of autistic children with a peripheral focus on psychological parameters of parents of ASD. This review study focuses on division of attention required for the treatment of ASD towards the child with autism and the parents who manage them.

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Association of Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorders and Loss of Family Income

Abstract: Childhood autism is associated with a substantial loss of annual household income. This likely places a significant burden on families in the face of additional out-of-pocket expenditures.

Cited by 150 publications

References 10 publications

Employment experiences of parents of children with ASD or ADHD: an exploratory study

Employment experiences of parents of children with ASD or ADHD: an exploratory study

Medical Care Burden of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

The Peripheral Focus on the Psychological Parameters of Parents of Autistic Children in the Intervention Methods: A Review and Recommending the Strategy, Focusing Psychological Parameters of Parents of Autistic Children in Intervention Methods

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