Parental educational practices: autonomy and expression of affection

Abstract

Children’s development is related to the quality of the family relationships. When a children with disabilities births the family can experiment negatives feelings as affliction and frustration. The way how parentes deal with this crisis influences on the educational practices that they will perform with their children. The purpose of this study is to descrive education practices of parentes with empha  sis on autonomy and affection expression utilized by parentes of childrens with developmental delay.The method includes descriptive and inferential analysis. Participated 86 families wich 45 has children with typical development and 41 has children with developmental delay (childrens without phenotypes but with intelectual disabilities light or moderate, or autism diagnosis). The results shows that there’s a significant statistical difference between the parents with children with typical development and the children’s parents with developmental delay about the choice of educational practices,in what concerns on the authoritarian control (F(119) = 3,61, p smaller than 0,05), stimulation of autonomy(F(119) = 5,37, p smaller than 0,01), and affection expression (F(119) = 6,10, p smaller than 0,01). The datas allow to conclute that parentes with childrens with developmental delay need a eficient support network and orientation about educational practices more appropriates to the childrens development.Unproportional use of authoritarian control associated with difficult on affection expression are educational practices that do not contribute to the development of a children. Creating support groups for parents with children with developmental delay could be a way to provide orientation about educational practices more apropriates.