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Grandparents and Parents Assess the Development of Their Child with Autism

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Pages 17-27 | Received 01 May 1996, Accepted 01 Jun 1996, Published online: 12 Oct 2008
 

ABSTRACT

The grandparent-parent relationship may play a potent role in families with a child with autism. In these families, the parents' need for social and practical support may be greater than in other families. Parents and grandparents of children with autism between the ages of 36 months and 78 months evaluated the child's adaptive functioning using the Minnesota Child Development Inventory (Ireton & Thwing, 1972). Results indicate that each family member's perception of the child correlated significantly with those of the other respondents, but the father's ratings of the child significantly differed from those of the paternal grandparents.

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