Understanding the Attitudes and Concerns of Parents of Children with Special Needs

Parenting is a super art where each child is a canvass and parents have divine powers to paint the most beautiful masterpiece of their life –Their Children Parents of children with special needs have greater responsibilities because they have to create their own world where things go just right as per the needs and abilities of their children. The aim of this paper is to make an attempt to understand the attitudes and concerns of parents who have children with special needs. Researcher developed questionnaire on various aspects to know what is the attitude and concerns of parents who have special needs children. Purposive sampling method was adopted to select the sample in which 30 parents of 15 identified special needs children were taken including both mother and father. Percentage analysis was done on the responses and codes where formulated for the analysis. Findings reveals that many a times parents are under stress and guilt for their children and therefore they themselves put pressures in their lives but some of them are the encouraging and inspirational as they are trying hard for being positive in between the pressures .Though the life is difficult but with awareness and collaborations of each and every members of the society parents of special needs children may be supported for creating their masterpiece live happily in best possible ways.