Role of Parenting Style and Parenting Stress upon Behavioral Problems of Learning Disabled Children

Learning disability is the limited ability in learning, restricted to certain areas of learning; they do not include learning problem which are primarily due to visual, hearing or motor handicaps, mental retardation, emotional disturbance or to adverse environmental factors. As learning starts with birth and ends with death, as disability can be expected in any of the minute faculty of human being; while limiting to the academic learning and the types and varieties of learning disabilities explored till now are limited. In the present era,just due to the importance given by the common man to education, the ditferentially-abled performance creates lot of difficulty to certain parents. The present study investigates such parental stress in relation to their parenting behavior styles. The sample includes parents of learning disabled children (LD) and parents of non-disabled children (NLD), especially limiting to mothers. The collected data will be scientifically discussed in the paper.