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ERIC Number: EJ439490
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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ISSN: ISSN-0156-6555
Now It Is Time for Your Child to Go to School, How Do You Feel?
Ryde-Brandt, Brita
International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, v38 n1 p45-58 1991
This study, with 13 mothers of Down's Syndrome children (ages 7 to 8) and comparison groups of mothers of motor handicapped children and of children with both mental retardation and psychotic symptoms, found mood disturbances uncommon in the mothers of DS and motor handicapped children. DS mothers' experience of social support was generally not negative. (DB)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Children, Depression (Psychology), Downs Syndrome, Emotional Adjustment, Incidence, Mental Retardation, Mothers, Multiple Disabilities, Parent Attitudes, Physical Disabilities, Psychosis
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Note: Theme Issue: Down Syndrome across the Life Span.