2025: Empowering the Future through Education, Diversity, and Hope

Working with Families of Individuals with Disabilities

Ella Osborne, Gonzaga University

Location

Hemmingson Ballroom

Start Date

15-4-2025 11:15 AM

End Date

15-4-2025 12:15 AM

Description

Children will disabilities often have deficits in social communication and can engage in repetitive or restrictive behavior. Additionally, individuals with disabilities can engage in problem behavior such as aggression, self-injury, and tantrums. These behavioral deficits and behavioral excesses can cause challenges for families. This poster will review literature discussing the impact of autism on family members, the selection of interventions for in-home-based services, the effects of autism over the lifespan of the individual, and ways to support family members of children with ASD.

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Poster Session A

Publication Date

2025

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Apr 15th, 11:15 AM Apr 15th, 12:15 AM

Working with Families of Individuals with Disabilities

Hemmingson Ballroom

Children will disabilities often have deficits in social communication and can engage in repetitive or restrictive behavior. Additionally, individuals with disabilities can engage in problem behavior such as aggression, self-injury, and tantrums. These behavioral deficits and behavioral excesses can cause challenges for families. This poster will review literature discussing the impact of autism on family members, the selection of interventions for in-home-based services, the effects of autism over the lifespan of the individual, and ways to support family members of children with ASD.