Child care and parenting issues for the young stroke survivor

Abstract

Parenting is a complex and challenging task for any parent and it becomes even more complicated for an individual who experiences a disability. Literature addressing the parenting role for individuals who have experienced a stroke is limited. This article provides information on evaluation tools available for assessing an individual's ability to perform child care tasks and intervention strategies such as adaptive techniques and equipment for maximizing ability and promoting safe performance of child care tasks by the individual who has experienced a stroke. Product and literature resources that can be used by either the health professional or the parent with a stroke to facilitate parenting and child care task performance are included.

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“…Within the literature, there appear to be two distinct approaches to the subject of disability and parenting; the first of these is presented from a medicalized perspective, often conducted by medical or health professionals and aimed at other professionals on how to support disabled parents [e.g., 11] and often implies links between parental disability and negative family outcomes [12,10,13]. The other body of literature presents the views of disabled people themselves, highlighting barriers they face in their parenting role and these studies largely consist of interviews and focus groups with disabled parents, to allow experiences to be shared directly.…”