@article{ref1,
title="Parental perceptions of risks with older teenagers who have severe learning difficulties contrasted with the young people's views and experiences",
journal="Children and society",
year="2003",
author="McConkey, Roy and Smyth, Marisa",
volume="17",
number="1",
pages="18-31",
abstract="The majority of school leavers over two years from two special schools for pupils with severe learning disabilities were individually interviewed (N = 34), as were their parents (N = 38). Parental reports stressed the amount of care and supervision required by these young people. They viewed them as vulnerable to various different hazards such as crossing roads and only a minority were prepared to take the risk of teaching them. However more of the young people felt they were capable of certain tasks. Parents had a particular fear that their son or daughter may be taken advantage of sexually even though the bigger risk--going by the young people's reports--is verbal abuse and bullying from peers. A model is proposed of the influences on parental assessments of risks. This might be used in arriving at 'shared risk-taking' strategies with professionals and the young people during the later years of schooling.<p />",
language="",
issn="0951-0605",
doi="10.1002/chi.725",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chi.725"
}