Children with Disability and their Siblings
Oftentimes so much time goes into supporting children with special needs, that there siblings may be inadvertently over looked and may need extra support and mentoring. Easter Seals recently did a study about siblings who will become the caregivers later on in life of their brothers and sisters with disability. Writer Rachel Adams shares in The New York Times’ her maternal reflections about the subject in her article Growing up With a Disabled Sibling . Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics also published a study in May 2013 testing “whether siblings of children with disability had higher levels of parent-reported behavioral and emotional functional impairment compared with a peer group of siblings residing with only typically developing children.” Children with disabilities and their siblings can have special relationships as we can see from this video from the King County (Seattle, WA) Developmental Disabilities Division of Early Intervention. ...