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Parents’ Strategies for Taking Care of Their Child with Disability: The Challenges of Being Parents of a Child with Cerebral Palsy in the Danish Social Welfare System Cover

Parents’ Strategies for Taking Care of Their Child with Disability: The Challenges of Being Parents of a Child with Cerebral Palsy in the Danish Social Welfare System

Open Access
|Jan 2025

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Longitudinal development of meta-strategies and associated strategies.

META-STRATEGIESASSOCIATED STRATEGIES
  • (1) Accept welfare services

Wait for and accept offers of help and guidance
  • (2) Struggle for welfare services

Seek knowledge
Build arguments based in the law
Ensure the right decision is made in first attempt
Build liaisons with professionals
Be extremely persistent
Surrender
  • (3) Ensure a good fit between the child and the future school

Start early preparing for the transition to school
Seek knowledge about the suitability of local schools
Get a psychological assessment of one’s child
Apply for postponement of school start
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/sjdr.1154 | Journal eISSN: 1745-3011
Language: English
Page range: 1 - 14
Submitted on: May 15, 2024
Accepted on: Dec 6, 2024
Published on: Jan 9, 2025
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2025 Louise Bøttcher, Jesper Dammeyer, published by Stockholm University Press
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