This study reviews recent literature related to grandparents' involvement and support for
grandchildren with disabilities and their grandchildrens' family. The literature reveals that …

Grandparents are important sources of support to children with disabilities and their families.
However, there has been very little published research concerned with grandparents' roles …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

This popular clinical reference and text provides a multisystems perspective on childhood
disability and its effects on family life. The volume examines how child, family, ecological …

After working with parents as a mainstream and special class teacher, educational
psychologist, researcher and teacher educator, as well as being a parent of two young …

This chapter begins with an examination of historical considerations and the classical
research in the area of grandparenting. Following a review of theories bearing on the study …

The structural and functional dimensions of perceived social support were examined, with
particular emphasis on the importance of grandparents as support providers to the mothers …

A dramatic rise in the survival rates of children born with disabilities (particularly those born
prematurely) has been reported in the last decade. The nature of their disabilities is, at times …

Mothers and fathers separately assessed grandparent support in family situations involving
grandchildren with developmental disabilities. There was high consistency in mother and …

The family in late modernity faces demographic change. However, it is still apparent that
intergenerational relationships and exchanges of resources are valued. There is a growing …