Parental Stress among Parents of Children with Autistic, Language Impairment and Normal Children

This research is a comparative study of stress between parents having normal children, and parents having children with autism, speech and hearing impairment. The study conducted was on parents of children between the age group of 4 to 15 years old and the age group of parent was 25 60. The study was conducted on 30 parents of children with autism and 30 parents of children with speech hearing impairment 30 parents with normal children. The parental stress scale by Judy O Berry and Warron H Jones was used for the study. The responses were scored according to the manual and the data was analyzed employing appropriate statistical methods using SPSS. The results show that parental stress was high on parents of children with autism than parents with normal children and speech hearing impairment children. Parents of children having autism scored highest mean 48.700 which shows autistic child's parent experience more stress. The results indicate that parent's age is a differentiator on parental stress among parents with normal children. The age group of parents with 25 35 got higher mean rank 20.11 than the other age groups 36 45 and 46 60 which shows that as the age increases stress levels decreases. Dr. R Krishnan Bhatt | Dr. Kiran Babu N. C | Ms. Grace Rini Roy "Parental Stress among Parents of Children with Autistic, Language Impairment and Normal Children" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-6 , October 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd33480.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/psychology/33480/parental-stress-among-parents-of-children-with-autistic-language-impairment-and-normal-children/dr-r-krishnan-bhatt