How effective are training interventions for parents with intellectual disabilities?
This review of peer reviewed studies updates our understanding of the effectiveness of parent training interventions for parents with intellectual disability. The authors identified only seven studies that met the inclusion criteria, published since 1994. The review found evidence to support the use of individually administered home-based behavioural intervention for parents with intellectual disability, finding changes in parent behaviour maintained over periods of time up to two years post-intervention. There was little attention paid in the research however to the effect of such parent training interventions on child outcomes, and on generalization of parenting skills. The authors point out that the literature on parenting interventions for the general population is beginning to understand the role of context in parenting interventions, and highlights the lack of contextual factors investigated in the learning disabilities literature, but that this was rarely investigated in the stu
