Parents have important role in the planning team
It is important to discover and cure the family’s limitation …show more content…
Approximately in 50 families mothers of children with this disorder are over involved than fathers and it was found that mothers have better awareness than fathers of the child’s strength and weakness. The study found that mother’s protect the husband from caretaking task of child with autism spectrum disorder even if the father’s do come.
Barry Neil Kaufman (1994) tells the story of Son-Rise rise programme. Sun Rise Programme which was started in 1953 has proved that a new way of training programme for parents and caregivers for children who have autism spectrum disorder, pervasive developmental disorder (PDD). In this programme they use parents as a key teacher and use home as the environment for treatment. According to them autism spectrum disorder is not a behavioural disorder, it is an interactional disorder. Sun Rise Programme works mainly to make relationship with the child and they use joining technique to take part in the child’s repetitive …show more content…
When they feel stressed and seek comfort with their parents (Capps, Sigman, and Mundy, 1994, Sigman and Capps, 1997; see also Buitelaar, 1995). There are many criticisms on family centred service. According to Larimore, 1993; Mahoney et al., 1990b;Marcenko & Smith, 1992; Panel, 1991; Sparling, Berger, & Biller, 1992; Turnbull & Summers,1987) in( Allen, R. I., & Petr, C. G,(1995) in a family centred approach the professionals usually think “entire family” as the unit of attention but in reality in a family the involvement and collaboration may be limited to the parents, to a parent- child dyad, or even solely to the primary caretaker , who usually is the mother. According to Drotar, 1991; Simeonsson & Bailey, 1991 in (Allen, R. I., & Petr, C. G. (1995)) it will be accurate to refer many of the family –centered programs as “parent – centred” or “mother –