Having a child with autism in home is challenging how much more to a single parent

who raised her child all by herself/himself. One mother has a son with autism shared
that when she knew her child’s condition she felt lost. Covered with so much distress,
frustrations and anger to the point that she thinks she lost her son mentally. The body
works and physically good however developmentally lost, as she further stated. People
could not really imagine what she had been through without a partner on her side
(Smith, 2011)

When novelist Hannah Brown learned that her son Danny, then about three and a half,
had autism, she says she didn’t know where to turn first. Along her journey as a mother
she indicated that having a community helping each other will get through things on
raising young children with autism. But what she feels right at the moment was to make
her son to get to the point where he can make his own choices and decisions in life.
(Rachel, 2013)

Another qualitative investigation of coping styles in raising child with autism comes with
nine phase and one of them is the “Redirecting Energy” wherein one mother of a 6 year
old boy, despite of knowing the diagnosis, explained:
I wanted my child to improve. He needs more help. He needs more therapy. That was why I put
him on the after school program. I learned from watching the therapist too… I also put him on
special supplements therapy. I think it might help. (Luong et.al, 2009)

The most commonly noted response of a study about the phenomenology of single
parents is stressful and that stress grows from variety of causes, which include stress
resulting from the negative behaviors, lack of understanding, both for themselves and
from others and when others offer bad advice. One participant described that it
definitely shortens her life and makes her isolated and alone however she treasures
every people in her child’s life who recognizes the good qualities of the kid and praises
the child for that (Cocchiaro, 2017).

Recent study shows that other parents were stress but generally healthy as they
consider life challenges as an opportunity to select technologies and interventions in an
effort to improve their child’s conditions. Their insights were seeking booth non-
technology and technology based interventions to help their children with ASD gain
functional, behavioral, social and academic skills (Cole & Parkman, 2012)
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Coexisting Diagnosis of ADHD and ODD. Doctor of Philosophy, Capella University.

Demetria Ennis- Cole, C. P. (2012). The Parenting Challenge: Selecting Technology and Non-Technology
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June Luong, M. R. (June 2009). Southeast Asian Parents Raising a Child with Autism: A Qualitative
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Rachel, M. (2013). Raising autism. Jerusalem Post, 24.

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