Month: November 2015
Seminar: Tools for handling disabilities
Read More: Seminar: Tools for handling disabilitiesTo understand the day-to-day lives of parents of children with disabilities, Francis X. McNesby offers this study of a group of mothers raising children with autism. The study, reported in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, measured the levels of cortisol, a hormone “that is released in response to increased levels of stress,” said…
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