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Play services for disabled children: mothers' satisfaction
Author(s) -
Petrie Pat,
Poland Gill
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1998.tb00082.x
Subject(s) - respite care , interpersonal relationship , psychology , interpersonal communication , element (criminal law) , developmental psychology , nursing , medicine , social psychology , political science , law
A study of six play services for disabled school children used mixed methods to investigate the perspectives of mothers and children. This paper reports the range of mothers' satisfaction as expressed in semistructured interviews. There was a high level of satisfaction. Play services were seen as alleviating difficulties by providing an element of respite, and as providing child‐centred benefits such as play, companionship and varied experiences. Grounds for dissatisfaction included insufficient availability of services, lack of information about them, insufficient attention towards children from staff, and activities which were not age appropriate.