Examining the Family-Level and Economic Impact of Complex Child Disabilities as a Function of Child Hyperactivity and Service Integration

Association Between Screen Time and Children’s Performance on a Developmental Screening Test

“…Thus, many children are beginning school inadequately prepared for learning and academic success. Gaps in development tend to widen vs shrink over time without intervention, creating a burden on education and health systems in the form of greater government and public expenditures for remediation and special education . Consequently, there have been efforts to identify factors, including children’s screen time, that may create or exacerbate disparities in early child development.…”

“…Gaps in development tend to widen vs shrink over time without intervention, 3 creating a burden on education and health systems in the form of greater government and public expenditures for remediation and special education. 4,5 Consequently, there have been efforts to identify factors, including children's screen time, 6 that may create or exacerbate disparities in early child development.Digital media and screens are now ubiquitous in the lives of children. Approximately 98% of US children aged 0 to 8 years live in a home with an internet-connected device and, on average, spend over 2 hours a day on screens.…”

Stress and Resilience Among Families Caring for Children with Intellectual Disability: Expanding the Research Agenda

“…Time-use studies have found that parents of children with disabilities devote considerably more time than parents of typically developing children to ordinary childcare tasks [68]. In addition, parents may invest considerable time and energy in the challenging process of accessing and navigating supports: Service discontinuity places a strain on families of children with disabilities [55,69,70], and then there is the expectation that parents will invest considerable time, energy and financial resources in the amelioration of their child's impairment (e.g., keeping appointments with professionals, implementing home programmes and so on). In a recent study, McConnell et al [54] investigated the relationship between parent-mediated intervention for children with disabilities and family well-being.…”

Benefit-finding or finding benefits? The positive impact of having a disabled child

“…Furthermore, parents of disabled children face a number of well documented, out-of-the-ordinary challenges and hardships. These may include intensive and/or unpredictable childcare demands (McCann, Bull, and Winzenberg 2012;Plant and Sanders 2007;Sawyer et al 2011); difficulty accessing and navigating poorly resourced service systems (Browne et al 2013;Hodgetts et al 2013;Reichman, Corman, and Noonan 2008;Rodger and Mandich 2005); inflexible employment conditions and/or a lack of inclusive childcare options, leading to under-employment and financial hardship (Booth-Laforce and Kelly 2004;Freedman, Litchfield, and Warfield 1995;Grace et al 2008;Gordon, Rosenman, and Cuskelly 2007;Shearn and Todd 2001;Seltzer et al 2001); and the threat of negative social evaluation (e.g. of being judged to be a bad parent), on account of perceived child behaviour problems (Green 2007;Neely-Barnes et al 2011;Rapanaro, Bartu, and Lee 2008;Samuel, Hobden, and LeRoy 2011;Voysey Paun 2006;Woodgate, Ateah, and Secco 2008).…”