Live Experience of Student with Disabled Parents

Abstract

NTRODUCTION

Disability is a condition that restricts everyday activities of a person. People with disabilities can consume a family's time, energy, and money, along with altering the lives of every family member. for children, this can be especially difficult. The purpose of this study was to determine the common difficulties of students with disabled parents and to determine the effects of common difficulties of students with disabled parents. In this study, the researcher explored the experiences of students with disabled parents.

METHODS

The researcher used the phenomenology as the research design considering the experiences of students with disabled parents by conducting interviews and focus group discussion togather. It is a qualitative phenomenology approach so the researcher used snowball sampling in choosing respondents wherein the respondents are referred to by the researchers. Three students from grade four to college with disabled parents were interviewed. The interview was transcribed to interpret the data. Thematic analysis by Braun and Clark (2006) was used to code the data.

RESULTS

Students that participated in our phenomenological study perceived common difficulties with disabled parent. The result revealed that the students with disabled parents used to experience common difficulties such as bullying and physical disability. The result also demonstrated the effects of these common difficulties to the daily lives of students with disabled parents by emotional issue, personal issue, and experience to develop family misunderstanding. The result also portrayed that the students living with disabled parents are more capable in handling their own emotions, especially when it comes to the common difficulties in their daily lives.

DISCUSSIONS

The study portrayed the common difficulties of students with disabled parents and showed the effects of these common difficulties to the daily lives of students including emotional issue, personal issue and experience to develop family misunderstanding. It also expressed that bullying was the common difficulty of the student with disabled parent.