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- Title: Giving Voice to Parents of Young Children with Challenging Behavior (Report)
- Author : Exceptional Children
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 237 KB
Description
In recent years, there has been increased interest in the science of child development, particularly within the early childhood years (i.e., birth to 5 years) and specifically pertaining to children who exhibit challenging behavior. With greater understanding of brain-behavior relationships and prevention services for young children has come a renewed interest in the developmental significance of early life experiences (National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, 2000). Armed with an increasingly large body of neuroscience research (e.g., O'Connor, Deater-Deckard, Fulker, Rutter, & Plomin, 1998; Plomin, Fulker, Corley, & DeFries, 1997; Rutter et al., 1997), researchers have begun to ask questions about the efficacy of prevention services and supports for young children, particularly those with challenging behavior (i.e., behaviors that interfere with "optimal learning or engagement in prosocial interactions with peers and adults"; Powell, Fixsen, & Dunlap, 2003, p. 2). Despite such an agenda, the voices of parents often remain unheard, regardless of widespread acknowledgment that parents play a critically important role as their child's most important teachers (Lucyshyn, Dunlap, Homer, Albin, & Ben, 2002). Not only are parents their children's most important teachers, they are also experts in their children's lives, with stories to share that can shed light on the science of child development and its implementation within our local communities. The current study was designed to give voice to a sample of parents raising young children with challenging behavior. The purpose of this qualitative investigation was to share detailed parent reports of experiences obtaining services and supports for their children within their local system of care. Using an ecological framework, parent reports are presented and discussed in relation to an analysis of community-based services and supports for children and families within the same geographic area (Raffaele Mendez & Hess, 2003).