• Pallavi Chauhan
• Dr Jayanti pujari

ABSTRACT Children with Autism have unique educational, social, sensory, behavioral and communicative needs. They lack eye contact; have deficient theory of mind, display echolalia and often engage in stereotyped and restrictive behavior. This adversely impacts their socialization and mainstreaming. These further cause parenting burdens and parents often find themselves ill trained to cope with numerous demands and parenting support needs. The present paper attempts to understand the responses, roles and responsibilities of parents and siblings towards the target group trough content analysis approach. It also aims to understand the responsibilities and roles of siblings and parents towards children with Autism. The in-depth and extensive review of literature reveals that parents have unique responsibilities towards their child with ASD. Similarly siblings of CwASD often face several challenges and suffer from anxiety due to their inability to understand the problems faced by such children. The study sheds light on the multiple roles played by parents of such children such as: care giver, parent, educator and advocator. Thus this study will help to sensitize care givers, educators, trainers and therapists to sensitize, train and allow parents to facilitate effective rehabilitation of the target group.

Keywords: Parents of CwASD, Siblings of CwASD, Responsibilities, Challenges, Roles, Emotional well being.

"Understanding the Responses, Roles and Responsibilities of Parents and Siblings towards CwASD", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.200-206, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908183.pdf

"Understanding the Responses, Roles and Responsibilities of Parents and Siblings towards CwASD", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp200-206, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908183.pdf