International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2023

Table of contents

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International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 24, 1 January 2024

This study indicates that among people with higher levels of disability, engaging in physical activity is linked to more effective stress coping through enhanced self-efficacy. However, this effect was not observed among people with low levels of disability.
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Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Volume 127, January 2024

The researchers examined the use of footwear that incorporates force-sensing resistor sensors to classify lower limb disorders affecting the knee, hip, and ankle joints. The outcomes of the study reveal promising findings for future gait analysis and injury diagnosis, and the potential of force-sensing resistors (FSRs) and machine learning techniques for improving the assessment of lower limb injuries, and thereby furthering SDG3.
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The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, Volume 41, December 2023

This Article supports SDG 3 by highlighting the importance of not just measuring life expectancy but also disability-free life expectancy as an indicator of population health, and showing that in Hong Kong, a word leader in life expectancy, there has been a trend of increasing disability burden, particularly in women. The authors discuss the public health implications of their findings.
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The Lancet Rheumatology, Volume 5, November 2023

This Article supports SDG 3 by estimating burdens of other musculoskeletal disorders (conditions other than osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, low back pain, and neck pain), which are a source of a large amount of disability globally; they are the sixth leading cause of years lived with disability globally, and the authors note they are an important consideration for policies regarding musculoskeletal health.
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The Lancet Rheumatology, Volume 5, October 2023

This Article supports SDG 3 by estimating the burden of rheumatoid arthritis. Finding include that the rate of years lived with disability due to rheumatoid arthritis increased by 13.8% from 1990 to 2020. The authors note that outcomes including severity of disability can be improved by early diagnosis and access to DMARD therapy.
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The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Volume 4, September 2023

This Article supports SDG 3 by examining the possible effects of hypertension prevention strategies on future dementia and disability occurence. The results suggest that the decrease in dementia and disability due to these interventions is likely to be offset by an increase in the susceptible poulation due to the increase in life expectancy.
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The Lancet Rheumatology, Volume 5, September 2023

This Article supports SDG 3 by estimating the burden of osteoarthritis, a major cause of adult disability. The study found that osteoarthritis is the seventh leading cause of years lived with disability worldwide among people older than 70 years. Years lived with disability attributable to osteoarthritis are likely to continue to rise, posing a large challenge to health systems, and necessitating increased focus on preventive and treatment measures.
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The Lancet Psychiatry, Volume 10, September 2023

This Article supports SDG 3 by showing that a broad range of interventions for behaviours that challenge are efficacious for people with intellectual disability, but that effect sizes are small
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The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, Volume 38, September 2023

This study supports SDG 3 by examining the incidence of stroke among people with disabilities, a group who are more likely to have risk factors for stroke. The incidence was found to be almost 2.5 times higher than in non-disabled people, and occuring 20 years earlier. Public health measures are urgently needed to address this problem.
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Journal of Transport Geography, Volume 111, July 2023

Explores the impact and consequences of not being able to make trips because of transport disadvantage. Explicitly does so in relation to SDG goal 11.2.
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The Lancet Rheumatology, Volume 5, June 2023

This Article supports SDG 3 by estimating the burden of low back pain, which continues to be the leading cause of disability worldwide. The study predicts that low back pain prevalence will continue to increase, from 619 million people in 2020 to 843 million in 2050. Two-fifths of the burden are due to modifiable risk factors, and a quarter of years lived with disability are attributable to occupational ergonomic factors.
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The Lancet Global Health, Volume 11, June 2023

This Comment supports SDGs 4 and 10 by reviewing the global pledges and resolutions that have been made regarding disabled children (dating back to 1946), and highlighting how the September 2023 global summit on SDGs provides an opportunity to reaffirm global commitments on early childhood development.
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Heliyon, Volume 9, May 2023

To determine parent based perceptions of a SEND cycle training programme, factors which predict intention to cycle more and ongoing barriers to cycling.
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Disability and Health Journal, Volume 16, April 2023

This article, which has international appeal, covers disability justice and health and therefore advances the UN SDG goals 3 (good health and wellbeing), 10 (reduced inequalities).
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Case Studies on Transport Policy, Volume 11, March 2023

Explores the problems faced by persons with disabilities while using public transport in Lahore, Pakistan, and how these problems influence their choice of mode of transport. Makes recommendations for transport policies and future research.
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Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 115, February 2023

Review article that examines 66 studies to understand the state of knowledge on the relationship between urban environment and the travel of people with disabilities. Adapts the classic travel demand model to the mobility characteristics of people with disabilities, interprets the existing literature, points out the missing links, and suggests directions of future research.
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The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 25, February 2023

This Viewpoint supprts SDG 3 by focusing on the health and wellbeing of people with disabilities in Europe and discussing inclusive health sectors, which could aid the protection of the human rights of people with disabilities and the promotion of their health.
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The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, Volume 31, February 2023

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10 by evaluating whether provision of a cash transfer to children and adolescents would improve their access to health and education resources, by removing financial barriers to these resources. The programme was successful in this regard; eg, beneficiaries were twice as likely as non-beneficiaries to use rehabilitation services and attend school.
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Heliyon, Volume 8, November 2022

This paper focuses on raising awareness of disability among Saudi university graduates.
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Heliyon, Volume 8, October 2022

This paper looks into the economic participation for people with a disability in the labour market to better understanding of how job satisfaction influences employment.
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Heliyon, Volume 8, June 2022

This systematic review aims to identify articles that systematically reviewed measures of ADL for children and adolescents aged 7–18 years with DD to evaluate the quality of included articles, and describe the measures and domains identified.
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The Lancet Global Health, Volume 10, March 2022

This Viewpoint supports SDGs 3 and 10 by arguing that greater attention and emphasis should be placed on children with developmental disabilities in early childhood development strategies, which would necessitate funding and investment specifically for this patient population.
Elsevier, The Lancet Global Health, Volume 10, January 2022
Background: To address the growing prevalence of hearing loss, WHO has identified a compendium of key evidence-based ear and hearing care interventions to be included within countries’ universal health coverage packages. To assess the cost-effectiveness of these interventions and their budgetary effect for countries, we aimed to analyse the investment required to scale up services from baseline to recommended levels, and the return to society for every US$1 invested in the compendium.
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International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 21, 1 September 2021

This study explores the styles and strategies of coping with stress among parents of children with developmental disabilities compared to parents of children with typical development. In stressful situations connected with rearing a child, parents of children with developmental disabilities do not use as dominant strategies connected with seeking emotional support and religion, which occur in the parents of typical development children.
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Heliyon, Volume 7, August 2021

The present study aimed to investigate the attitude and empathy of youth towards physically disabled persons.
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Trends in Neurosciences, Volume 44, July 2021

The authors discuss the complexities of diversity disclosure within academia.
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Heliyon, Volume 7, May 2021

The aim of this study was to compare the RAN pattern and skills of children with ID and low reading skills to the ones of TD children with matched reading skills.
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Heliyon, Volume 6, February 2020

This study looks to identify meaningful and accessible segments of the young adults with a physical disability population and to develop further understanding of how these segments can be targeted to increase their independence in their travel to work.
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Phytonutrients and Neurological Disorders: Therapeutic and Toxicological Aspects, Volume , 1 January 2023

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by reviewing the current therapies for neurological disorders and their limitations.
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3D Printing in Podiatric Medicine, Volume , 1 January 2022

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by highlighting the types of human podiatry disabilities and correction methods using traditional, 3DP technology and its challenges.
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Computational Methods and Deep Learning for Ophthalmology, Volume , 1 January 2023

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by systematically appraising the common applications of deep learning approaches and the utilization of big public health data to detect the risks of blindness within communities.
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Neurobiology of Brain Disorders: Biological Basis of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders, Second Edition, Volume , 1 January 2022

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing a framework for understanding neurodevelopment, explore the detection and diagnosis of developmental disabilities, describe techniques for investigation of the mechanisms of these disorders, and present principles of management.
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Brain Responses to Auditory Mismatch and Novelty Detection
Predictive Coding from Cocktail Parties to Auditory-Related Disorders
2023, Pages 221-269

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by highlighting the differences between low- and high-functioning ASD and age dependence of ERP findings in ASD, ADHD, and dyslexia; the effects of language impairment; and the role of ERPs in diagnosing between ASD and ADHD.
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Diet and Nutrition in Neurological Disorders, Volume , 1 January 2023

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced inequalities by exploring the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) caused by neurological disorders and the effect of that burden on society.
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Diet and Nutrition in Neurological Disorders, Volume , 1 January 2023

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by exploring the link between diet and gut microbiota in multiple sclerosis.
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Vertebral Augmentation Techniques, Volume , 1 January 2023

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by summarizing the commonly used instruments for the assessment of patient’s pain, quality of life, physical limitations, and psychological impact.
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Promoting Desired Lifestyles Among Adults with Severe Autism and Intellectual Disabilities
Person Centered Applications of Behavior Analysis
2023, Pages 275-293

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by stressing the importance of human service staff treating adults with severe disabilities with dignity.
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Promoting Desired Lifestyles Among Adults with Severe Autism and Intellectual Disabilities
Person Centered Applications of Behavior Analysis
2023, Pages 3-14

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by discussing the importance of promoting desired lifestyles among adults with severe autism and intellectual disabilities, and how the operations of many adult service agencies fail to promote individually desired lifestyles.
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Handbook of Lifespan Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Childhood, Adolescence, Pregnancy, Adulthood, and Aging, Volume , 1 January 2023

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by discussing the application of cognitive behavior therapy, an evidence-based psychological approach in adolescents suffering from Asperger syndrome with comorbid depressive disorder.
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Low Vision
Principles and Management
2024, Pages 1-14

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing an overview of low vision as well as defining concepts such as low vision, disorder, impairment, activity limitation, or participation restriction.
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Intellectually Impaired People
The Ongoing Battle
2023, Pages 161-167

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing easy access to the declarations and conventions of the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), and other international organizations and institutions.
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Intellectually Impaired People
The Ongoing Battle
2023, Pages 169-178

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing an overview of the paralympics as an encouraging success story that has fundamentally changed one of the many aspects of disabled people’s lives.
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The Youth Athlete: A Practitioner's Guide to Providing Comprehensive Sports Medicine Care, Volume , 1 January 2023

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by treating access and inclusion as human rights issue and highlighting information to providers about caring for athletes with physical disabilities.
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The Youth Athlete: A Practitioner's Guide to Providing Comprehensive Sports Medicine Care, Volume , 1 January 2023

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing a comprehensive review of specific considerations for the promotion of sports participation in youth athletes with intellectual disabilities.
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Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics
Volume 6, 2023, Pages 121-144

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by exploring the intersections between diagnosis, stigma and labelling along with the silencing of the child's voice.
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Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics
Volume 6, 2023, Pages 221-246

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing an in-depth review of how the COVID-19 pandemic, and subsequent physical distancing measures, impacted people with NDDs and their family members.
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International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities, Volume , 2023

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by exploring how experiential knowledge can complement professional and scientific knowledge and underscoring the benefits of incorporating experiential knowledge within the development of evidence-based care and support for people with intellectual disabilities.
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International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities, Volume 65, January 2023

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by identifying barriers for individuals with ID, their impact on long-term outcomes, and strategies that academics can use to foster positive identity development for this population.
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Kaufman's Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists (Ninth)
Major Problems in Neurology
2023, Pages 295-324

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by discussing the physical deficits, which are accompanied in predictable frequencies by Intellectual Disability and epilepsy, that result from brain injury sustained in utero, during birth, and infancy.
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This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing coverage of neural prosthetics (NPs) to restore lost limb function due to neural damage.
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Treatments, Mechanisms, and Adverse Reactions of Anesthetics and Analgesics, Volume , 1 January 2021

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced inequalities by showing the effectiveness of neural mobilization on pain and disability in individuals with musculoskeletal disorders.
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Handbook of Clinical Neurology
Volume 185, 2022, Pages 81-97

This content links with Goal 3: Good health and well-being and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing coverage of the clinical syndrome of a primary progressive aphasia (PPA), the demographics of this rare neurodegenerative disease, defining clinical and neuroanatomic characteristics of each PPA variant, disease progression, and behavioral features.
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Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 64, January 2023

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by presenting ASD as a complex, multisystem neurodevelopmental condition with origins in prenatal life.
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Nelson Pediatric Symptom-Based Diagnosis: Common Diseases and their Mimics (Second Edition)
2023, Pages 450-472.e2

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by reviewing the common risk and protective factors for developmental disorders, approaches to screening, and identification of developmental disabilities in primary health care settings.
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Rehabilitation Robots for Neurorehabilitation in High-, Low-, and Middle-Income Countries
Current Practice, Barriers, and Future Directions
2024, Pages 471-498

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by raising the general and ethical issues around access to rehabilitation robot technologies and discusses them in the context of inclusivity—a term that encompasses affordability and other common issues that may justify limiting or increasing use in low-resource settings in HICs and LMICs.
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Current Topics in Developmental Biology, Volume 152, January 2023

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing evidence that environmental factors influence individual risk and/or severity of autism spectrum disorders.
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Promoting Desired Lifestyles Among Adults with Severe Autism and Intellectual Disabilities
Person Centered Applications of Behavior Analysis
2023, Pages 139-163

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing specific aspects of agency supports and services in accordance with identified preferences of adults with severe disabilities.
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A Progressive Approach to Applied Behavior Analysis
The Autism Partnership Method
2024, Pages 103-113

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by discussing the application of cognitive behavior therapy, an evidence-based psychological approach in adolescents suffering from Asperger syndrome with comorbid depressive disorder.
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A Progressive Approach to Applied Behavior Analysis
The Autism Partnership Method
2024, Pages 17-27

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by discussing the Autism Partnership Method which is a successful method in working with patients diagnosed with autism.
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Clinician's Guide to Sexuality and Autism
A Guide to Sex Education for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
2024, Pages 3-8

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by introducing sexuality education curriculum for learners of all ages with autism.
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Clinician's Guide to Sexuality and Autism
A Guide to Sex Education for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
2024, Pages 9-16

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by outlining how to use the book to provide effective teaching in sexuality education with an emphasis on individualization for specific learners.
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Disability and Health Journal, Volume 16, Issue 3, July 2023, 101471

An obituary to remember Judy Heumann.
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Journal of Responsible Technology, Volume 12, December 2022, 100048

An investigation, linking particularly well to SDGs 10 and 5 focusing on equality, which shows how researchers can actively engage with equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in their work, and how EDI considerations must remain an ongoing effort. The authors, working in the field of responsible research and innovation (RRI), intentionally employed EDI in their project recruitment, and reflect here on the adjustments they made as a result. The recruitment of persons with disabilities led to some particularly interesting and new insights in this study looking at trustworthiness in the design of autonomous systems with evolving functionality.
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Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Volume 127, January 2024

The researchers examined the use of footwear that incorporates force-sensing resistor sensors to classify lower limb disorders affecting the knee, hip, and ankle joints. The outcomes of the study reveal promising findings for future gait analysis and injury diagnosis, and the potential of force-sensing resistors (FSRs) and machine learning techniques for improving the assessment of lower limb injuries, and thereby furthering SDG3.
Elsevier,

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 21, 1 September 2021

This study explores the styles and strategies of coping with stress among parents of children with developmental disabilities compared to parents of children with typical development. In stressful situations connected with rearing a child, parents of children with developmental disabilities do not use as dominant strategies connected with seeking emotional support and religion, which occur in the parents of typical development children.