MATP 661Ch. 4

Which is a myth about parents and families of persons with disabilities?

• Professionals need to focus their intervention efforts only on the parents, especially the mother, of children with disabilities.

• Professionals now believe that the family (including extended family), as well as friends, should be included in intervention programming for children with disabilities.

• Parents can influence their children’s behavior, but so, too, can children affect how their parents behave. Research shows that some children with disabilities are born with difficult temperaments, which can affect parental behavior.

• Parents don’t go through emotional reactions in lockstep fashion. They may experience some, or all, of these emotions but not necessarily in any particular order.

What does IFSPs stand for?

• individualized family system plans

• individualized family service plans

• identify family service plans

What does BPT stand for?

• Behavioral Parent Teaching

• Behavioral Parent Tutelage

• Behavioral Parent Training

The goal of early intervention should be to...

• Train parents how to care for a child who has a disability

• Training to achieve a positive effect on their children

• Develop and preserve the natural parent-child relationship as much as possible

Family-centered models are consistent with another current trend in services for families with disabilities

• wraparound service systems

• family systems theory

Wraparound service systems are best described as?

• basic information about the family, such as the type and severity of the disability, the family’s size, cultural background, socioeconomic status, coping styles, and special conditions

• understanding the individual’s behavior in the context of the family and understanding the family’s behavior in the context of other social systems

• involve using not only educational services, but also available community services (e.g., mental health, social welfare, juvenile justice, and so forth) to meet the individualized needs of children and their families

Family systems theory is best described as?

• basic information about the family, such as the type and severity of the disability, the family’s size, cultural background, socioeconomic status, coping styles, and special conditions

• understanding the individual’s behavior in the context of the family and understanding the family’s behavior in the context of other social systems

• using not only educational services, but also available community services (e.g., mental health, social welfare, juvenile justice, and so forth) to meet the individualized needs of children and their families