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Mkabile, Siyabulela; Swartz, Leslie – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Background: Post-apartheid, understanding and management of intellectual disability remain poor in South Africa, complicated by various contextual and cultural explanations used to describe and conceptualize this condition. Method: We conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with primary caregivers and parents of children with intellectual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, Caregiver Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
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Crabtree, Sara Ashencaen – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2007
Background: This qualitative study discusses family care-giving of children with developmental disabilities in the United Arab Emirates. Findings were reviewed in terms of the influence of culture on gender norms governing parental behaviour and aspirations. Method: An ethnographic approach is used in which parent participants were interviewed…
Descriptors: Mothers, Daughters, Developmental Disabilities, Arabs