• S.Asha Rani
• D.Rajyalakshmi

ABSTRACT Raising a child with intellectual disability considerably affects the family’s daily life and the life course of the child’s parents. This is not merely a single crisis or stressful event that requires a one-time mobilization of the family, but rather a complicated process which continues throughout a lifetime, and has its vicissitudes. The present study was conducted to examine the parental stress having children with intellectual disability. The participants of the study consisted of 120 parents comprises (60 fathers and 60 mothers) of hearing impaired children who were studying in special education schools and centers in Visakhapatnam district. Data were gathered through parental stress index developed by Abidin(1995). The data were analyzed using the disruptive statistics like frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation were employed to examne the ovel all parental stress. Independent sample t test, one way and two way ANOVA were employed to see whether there is significant mean difference on parental stress as a functions of gender, parental income and parental education. Based on the present study findings, conclusion and recommendations were made

"STRESS AMONG PARENTS OF CHIDREN HAVING INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY: A CASE FOR VISAKHAPATNAM SCHOOL STUDENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.158-165, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903B27.pdf

"STRESS AMONG PARENTS OF CHIDREN HAVING INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY: A CASE FOR VISAKHAPATNAM SCHOOL STUDENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp158-165, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903B27.pdf