Research Paper
Year: 2018 | Month: July | Volume: 5 | Issue: 7 | Pages: 35-41
Parental View on Problems Faced By Them with an Adult with Intellectual Disability- A Study
Arup Kumar Goswami
Department of Education, Research Scholar, Jharkhand Rai University, Ranchi
ABSTRACT
Intellectual disability is a kind of disability which is lifelong. It has a major impact both on the children and their families. The learning characters of intellectual disability are that they learn very slow and forget very quickly. Naturally the school going intellectually disabled children also unable to perform daily essential works by own in adulthood which create many problems in the family. Parents of children with intellectual disability typically care for their child at home and then continue to provide care generally in the family home until they die or are no longer able to offer the support because of their own illness or frailty [Beange & Taplin 1996, Big by-2000] Based on this concept the study focused on the parental view on problems faced by them with an adult with intellectual disability.
The study was descriptive survey type. The sample consist of 50 parents (either mother or father) having an adult with intellectual disability selected by purposive sample technique of Bankura District. The age group of the parents was 40-65 years. Self constructed semi structured questionnaire consisting 30 (thirty) questions with the help of “Family Burden interview schedule developed by Pai, Kapoor 1981 was used for collecting data. The collected data were analysed by descriptive statistics and percentage count. The result showed that majority of the parents expressed positively about the problems faced by them like the child not entirely independence of activities in daily living (ADL), very slow in daily work, present of problem behaviour lack of proper socialization & sexual behaviour. The parental view also positively associated with family adjustment, suffering in stress, anxiety and depression hamper of marital relationship and relationship with other relatives.
Key words: intellectual disability, problems, adult, ADL.
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