"What Services?": Stakeholders' Perceived Unmet Support Needs for Parents With Neurological Disorders.

Knowledge about the needs of parents with neurological disorders who take care of young children is limited. The overall aim of this qualitative study was to explore the perceived unmet parent needs, current supports, and potential solutions to optimize supports of parents with neurological disorders in early childhood in a Canadian setting. Focus groups and individual interviews with parents (  =  8), spouses (  =  5), rehabilitation clinicians (  =  8), community partners (  =  7), and researchers (  =  7) were conducted with a total of 35 participants recruited using convenience sampling.

Improving services for parents with intellectual disability and their families: Views of Canadian social service workers.

How adults with intellectual disability fare in the parenting role depend, to varying degrees, on the adequacy of supports and services provided. The available research suggests that service providers are often ill-equipped to accommodate their support needs. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore the perspectives of Canadian social service workers on what is required to improve services and build systems capacity to more effectively support parents with intellectual disability, their children and families.

Reasonable Efforts? Child Maltreatment Investigations and Service Referrals of Parents With Ascribed Cognitive Impairments in Canada.

Parents with ascribed cognitive impairment (CI) are more likely than parents without CI to have their children removed by child protective services (CPS). Inequitable access to parenting and family supports and services is thought to be a contributing factor. Utilizing data on a 3-month sample of 15,980 child maltreatment investigations across Canada, including 1,244 cases featuring parents with CI, this study investigated service referrals and non-referrals.

Recent Trends and Future Directions in Research Regarding Parents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Purpose Of Review: This report updates research on parents with IDD and their children published since 2014.

Recent Findings: Since 2014, a plethora of studies using large administrative databases in different countries support a contextual approach to understand why parents with IDD and their children may have worse outcomes than other families. In most studies, increased risk of ill health in women with IDD and health and developmental problems in their children were fully or partially accounted for by socioeconomic and psychosocial hardships.

Child Maltreatment Investigations in Canada: Main and Moderating Effects of Primary Caregiver Cognitive Impairment.

Children of parents with cognitive impairment are overrepresented in the child protection system (CPS). The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between primary caregiver cognitive impairment (CCI) and CPS investigation outcomes using the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS-2008). The CIS-2008 includes process and outcomes data on a national sample of CPS investigations involving a total of 15,980 children under the age of 16 years.

Brain-computer interfaces and personhood: interdisciplinary deliberations on neural technology.

Objective: Scientists, engineers, and healthcare professionals are currently developing a variety of new devices under the category of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Current and future applications are both medical/assistive (e.g.

Mothering with an Intellectual Disability: A Phenomenological Exploration of Making Infant-Feeding Decisions.

Background: Mothers with intellectual disability are less likely than mothers without intellectual disability to breastfeed their infants, but there is little literature that addresses infant-feeding decisions among this population. This study explores experiences of mothers with intellectual disability in making and carrying out infant-feeding decisions.

Methods: Using a phenomenological approach, in-depth interviews were conducted with four mothers with intellectual disability.

Ameliorating Psychosocial Risk Among Mothers with Intellectual Impairment.

The purpose of this study was to pilot a flexible, group-based program designed to strengthen the social connections and enhance the psychological well-being of mothers with intellectual impairment. A multi-site, mixed-method, pretest-posttest design was employed. To obtain rich process and outcome data, the evaluation incorporated measures of psychosocial well-being, goal achievement scaling, and interviews with group facilitators and participants.

Parental cognitive impairment and child maltreatment in Canada.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of parental cognitive impairment in cases opened for child maltreatment investigation in Canada, and to examine the relationship between parental cognitive impairment and maltreatment investigation outcomes including substantiation, case disposition and court application.

Methods: The method was secondary analysis of the Canadian Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS-2003) core-data, which is derived from a multi-stage stratified cluster sample of 11,562 child maltreatment investigations.

Results: Parental cognitive impairment was noted in 10.

Child maltreatment investigations involving parents with cognitive impairments in Canada.

The authors examined decision making and service referral in child maltreatment investigations involving children of parents with cognitive impairments using the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS-2003) core-data. The CIS-2003 includes process and outcome data on a total of 1,243 child investigations (n = 1,170 weighted) in which parental cognitive impairment was noted. Employing binary logistic regression analyses, the authors found that perceived parent noncooperation was the most potent predictor of court application.