Building upon my inquiries about how parents deal with the stress that comes along with having children with disabilities, I decided to research what causes the stress.  No parent wants to think about their child as being a burden, that the child is to blame for the stress.  What are these causes?  What do parents do deal with the stress?  How do they ever have time for themselves if they are constantly worrying about their child?
I found two videos, part 1 and part 2, of Caring for Children with Disabilities in Ohio: The Impact on Families.  This video discusses the various stressors that come with having a child with a disability.  Research has shown that parents that have children with disabilities experience higher levels of stress, lower employment opportunities, and the deminished rates of well being compared to other families.  The video explores the impact in terms of financial, emotional, and social well being.  I found these videos to be of much more interest due to its focus on just Ohio families.  To truly understand where parents are coming from, one will not learn from reading in a textbook.  These videos include actual parents who are speaking about their experiences.  As a future educator, I found this video to be very intriguing, giving me a better understanding of what parents are going through.  One father in this video quit his job so he could take care of his child to take him to and from school.  Another mother speaks about how when her child was being diagnosed the doctor told her there was no cure for her child and don't worry about it.  This mother felt as if she was on her own to research what her child was being diagnosed with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZa9tlH7Mw0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqjmmUaAPXg&feature=relmfu

Hearing from these parents made me think about the stress into greater depth.