Helping Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities

Abstract

This article attempts to spell out a three dimensional approach to helping parents of children with learning disabilities: (1) educative counseling, (2) interpretive counseling, and (3) habilitatiw involvement of parents. Such an approach has been effectiw with parents regardless of the nature and degree of their neurotic problems, or their lewl of psychological sophistication. The method is adaptable to individual casewrk or group parent counseling. Family therapy counselors can also use much of the content as elaborated on in the article.