Expectations of Parents of Children with Disabilities from Community-Based Services Cover Image

Očekivanja roditelja dece sa smetnjama u razvoju od usluga u zajednici
Expectations of Parents of Children with Disabilities from Community-Based Services

Author(s): Miroslav Brkić, Dragana Stanković, Nevenka Žegarac
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: children with disabilities; service users' perspective; parents; services; community

Summary/Abstract: Families with children with disabilities are faced with many problems in their daily functioning and the absence of adequate forms of support due to which is necessary to develop a network of daily services in community. These daily services have to be flexible and individualized so they can meet to the greater extent the needs of the parents and children. This is not possible wihout the exchange of information between families and service providers. The parents' expectations of daily services at the very beginning of their use are examined. This research, which is the part of larger evaluation study, is conducted in 32 municipalities in Serbia and included 243 parents who are the service users. Parents generally have high or moderately high expectations in relation to the development of child's competencies, socialization, participaion in community, improvement the functioning of their own skills and whole family.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 09
  • Page Range: 211-229
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Serbian