Sustainable Family Care for Children with Disabilities
Current Projects
The following are current FDSI projects with a focus on supporting families raising a child with disabilities:
Sustainable Family Care for Children with Disabilities
The ' Sustainable Family Care for Children with Disabilities' project looks at understanding how parent-carers juggle multiple roles and responsibilities, and the resources they need to keep their family life running.
A community-driven research project designed to investigate outcomes of Stepping Stones for parents of children with autism
Intervention Enfolded in Routine
The effects of early intervention services on the lives of families of young children with disabilities and the accommodations that families make to create and sustain a meaningful routine of daily life
Disability Based Inequities in Adolescent Health and Well-Being
Investigation of well-being indicators for disabled children and youth in the Canadian context
Publications
Browse through selected projects and publications with a focus on raising children with disabilities. Feel free to contact us for access to further reports or publications.
Journal Articles | Reports
The Family Life Survey was completed by 538 parent-carers from around Alberta. The information provided is helping us to gain an understanding of how parent-carers juggle multiple roles and responsibilities, and the resources they need to keep their family life running. We hope for continued participation in this three year project (2009-2011).