Understanding Malaysian parents’ experiences in obtaining diagnosis, caregiving and educating their children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) towards Inclusive Education
Inclusive education is the way forward for special education needs students in the 21st century and children with autism spectrum disorder are among the most difficult of special education students to handle. In order for inclusive education to be successful for this group of students, parent-tea...
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2019
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| Online Access: | https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1205/ |
| Summary: | Inclusive education is the way forward for special education needs students in the 21st
century and children with autism spectrum disorder are among the most difficult of
special education students to handle. In order for inclusive education to be successful for
this group of students, parent-teacher collaboration and cooperation is essential. It is
therefore most important for teachers and parents to understand each other. The objective
of this study is to explore parents’ experiences in obtaining a diagnosis, caregiving and
educating their ASD children as well as their future aspirations for them. This is to
enhance mainstream as well as special needs educators’ understanding of parents who
often face a psychological loss termed ambiguous loss which can result in family crisis
when their child is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The intended study
is a qualitative study and will be done through face to face interviews; asking parents
caring for their ASD children open questions on the four areas in order to obtain rich and
thick data. The data obtained will be transcribed and analysed via phenomenological
analysis in order to provide the unique perspectives of Malaysian parents in these four
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