Families of Disability Children

Families play an important role in the development of the child whether one is disabled or not. There are various types of disabilities which the children can have such as learning disabilities, reading disability, visual disability, hearing disability etc which can occur from a disease or injury and can be the cause of embarrassment for them and their families. The families worry when their child is suffering from a learning disability in schools.

There can be various reasons for school failure and learning disability is one of them. About one out of ten schoolchildren are suffering with learning disability. All children share different range of intelligence but some try very hard to concentrate on the instructions given in home and schools.

The main reason of learning disabilities is the difficulty in the nervous system that does not receive, process and communicate the information to the brain of the children. Some children also suffer with various problems such as they are unable to sit still, have a short attention span, hyperactive and easily distracted. The following signals should be followed by the parents when their child:-

• Lacks coordination in sports, walking and small activities
• Has difficulty in following and understanding instructions
• Fails to master spelling, reading and writing
• Cannot understand the concept of time
• Has difficulty in identifying the words or reversing the letters, numbers or words
• Easily loses schoolbooks, homework and other items

The treatment of children with learning disabilities can be possible as family, teachers and adolescent psychiatrists can help them to improve their learning disabilities and reading disabilities. But there are some disabilities in which families cannot do anything. The families can only support their children with love and admiration.

Such disabilities are hearing and visual disabilities and some disabilities are due to some injury or disease like cancer, AIDS, diabetes, multiple sclerosis etc. Such disabilities cannot be treated and families of children with these disabilities make them worry about their children but cannot do anything for them. Some therapies and medications can be provided to them which can reduce their pain.

The Family Support Network of North Carolina implemented a project on those families with children who have disabilities and wants to strengthen those families. The main goal of this project is to provide services among the local level organizations and state so that the families with children having disabilities can get the maximum benefit.