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Family Patterns of Reaction to a Child with a Learning Disability

A Mediational Perspective

Louis H. Falik, PhD

Louis H. Falik s a professor of counseling in the Department of Counseling at San Francisco State University, and a training and research associate at the International Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential in Jerusalem, Israel. His current teaching and research interests are in the areas of cognitive development and its application to the acquisition of learning skills, behavioral functioning, and the training of teachers, counselors, psychologists, and parents. Address: Louis H. Falik, Department of Counseling, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA 94132.

The impact of a child's learning disability on the family system is explored with regard to the general consequences for the system and to the parents' abilities to react to the problems generated for the child and family. Feuerstein's concept of mediated learning experience is proposed as a useful way of understanding the process issues, to assess parental reactions, and to guide more productive and adaptive interventions. Four prototypical patterns of family response are presented, with descriptions of the mediational restrictions and potentialities embedded within them. Implications are presented for both dysfunctional responses and the development of positive and adaptive reactions.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 28, No. 6, 335-341 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/002221949502800604
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