Parent’s Adjustment of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Abstract

During early years children make tremendous strides in all aspects of development, physical, linguistic, social emotional ethical and mental. However, this development is vulnerable to adversity, risks, and critical windows of time. Both parents play an important role in achieving each milestone of child (Lakhani, & Nadeem, 2017). What happens to the child in the early years is critical for the child’s developmental trajectory and life course. Autism is defined as a complex neurodevelopmental disorder that persists throughout the life of the individual and appears during the early years of the child's life. The parents of children with autism experience many challenges beyond those of parents with children with other disabilities, because autism in particular is one of the most disability is difficult to understanding and dealing with the child, because of the closure of itself, accompanied by lack of communication and social interaction with the existence of behavioral problems such as dispersion and hyperactivity. It is therefore different from any other disabilities (El Dib, 2016).