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Parental Roles, Reactions, & Effects

Parent's reactions to children with learning problems often reflect a house divided. Parents have different roles and participation of each is different. The mother gives birth to the child and often seems clairvoyant about the child's development; she may see what others cannot see and yet she may not be as eager to mention doubts and fears. Problems may not be faced until the child begins having difficulties in school. School conferences are often held during the day, the father may not be available. Attempts to report difficulties to a busy father may result in comments that the child is probably bored (Osman, 1979).

Many fathers are unable to face that their child couldn't achieve like everyone else. They remain inpatient with unrealistic appraisal of the child's abilities and/or the mother's efforts to help. Father's may resent the time spent with the child and resort to references that the mother is spoiling the child. This resentment adds strain to the marital relationship and drives the father further away from the child. For this and other reasons, the father o

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elays, including mental retardation, slow learning/developmental delay, and functional developmental delay; five percent of the parents had concerns about global development; seven percent were concerned about school skills; eight percent were concerned about fine or gross motor skills; nine percent were concerned about receptive language skills; twenty-three percent were concerned about personal-social problems; twenty-seven percent were concerned about speech-expressive language; and most commonly, fifty-one percent were concerns about behavior. It was concluded that relationships between types of parental concern and types of developmental problems were not found when children had global developmental delays; concerns regarding behavior were the strongest indicator of global developmental delay. Parents' concerns are therefore viewed at best as a prescreening tool and cannot be taken at face value. Flipsen (1995) reports that mothers tend to be better than all other listeners (including fathers) at identifying words being spoken by speech-delayed children with normal hearing; Thus the overall superior performance of mothers was supported. However, different studies challenge this concept and argue that their findings ind
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