Resumen de The Attitude towards Parenting Programmes Involving Children with Disabilities

Iolanda Tobolcea, Camelia Soponaru

• The rapid evolution of today’s social life, the alteration of family status, and the women’s growing attributions lead to a more pregnant role of the educational institutions concerning not only the education of children, but also of adults. Thus, the parenting programmes promoted in our country by nongovernmental organizations and by educational institutions have turned useful in providing support to parents. The objective of our study was to explore the attitude of the teaching staff/educators and parents towards the parenting programmes for children with disabilities. We believe that the type of educational body (parents and educators), the home environment (rural and urban), and the presence or absence of a disabled child in the family influence the attitude towards the parenting programmes concerning children with disabilities. In order to reach this objective, we conducted a study on the attitude of educators (61 subjects) and parents (123 subjects) towards the parenting programmes involving disabled children, relying on an attitude questionnaire developed to this purpose. The results of our research highlight the fact that the attitude towards the parenting programmes concerning disabled children is more favourable in educators than in parents, in urban parents than in rural parents and in parents with disabled children.