Parents and the Adulthood of their Children with Intellectual Disabilities Cover Image

Rodzice wobec dorosłości swoich dzieci z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną
Parents and the Adulthood of their Children with Intellectual Disabilities

Author(s): Beata Cytowska
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Sociology, Family and social welfare
Published by: Zakład Historii Edukacji w Instytucie Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: adulthood; parents; persons with intellectual disability; interviewing; family relations

Summary/Abstract: The Author has chosen the intellectual disability to be the topic of her divagations. Therefore she enumerates certain factors which make the process of growing up more difficult or sometimes even impossible for people with intellectual disability. The article involves the analysis of several interviews with parents of adult children with intellectual disability. The main subject of those conversations was the perception of their children's adulthood.

  • Issue Year: IV/2011
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 87-107
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: English, Polish