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8/22/2022  |   1:00 PM - 2:00 PM   |  Governor General I

Fostering Joy in Parenting a Child with cCMV

Parents of children with cCMV share many common experiences. The support that has been offered to parents has often been in the form connecting them to services and supports. Despite the importance of these, we argue for the need for professionals and parents themselves to focus on fostering joy involved in raising children who are affected by cCMV. Rather than emphasize parental stress or challenges, in this session we will: 1. Contextualize the parenting experience in terms of strengths, such as maternal insightfulness (Feniger-Schaal, Oppenheim, & Koren-Karie, 2019), parental increases in confidence and ability to find meaning in life in parents raising children with disabilities (Beighton & Wills, 2017), and parents’ positive appraisals of the influence that raising a child affected by cCMV has had on their lives (Szarkowski & Brice, 2016). 2. The presenter will provide suggestions for living in the moment, honing in on the positive aspects of the parenting experience, and celebrating the “little victories” in raising a child with cCMV.

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Amy Szarkowksi (POC-Point of Contact,Primary Presenter), amy.szarkowski@childrens.harvard.edu;

      ASHA DISCLOSURE:

Financial - Receives Salary for Employment from Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School.   Receives Salary for Employment from Children’s Center for Communication/Beverly School for the Deaf (CCCBSD).   Receives Honoraria excluding diversified mutual funds for Teaching and speaking from CMV Conference.   Receives Salary for Employment from Gallaudet University.  

Nonfinancial - Has a Professional (Advisory Board) relationship for Board membership.   Has a Professional (Care Team member) relationship for Board membership.   Has a Professional (Advisory Board) relationship for Board membership.  


      AAA DISCLOSURE:

Financial - Receives support from Children’s Center for Communication/Beverly School for the Dead (CCCBSD); Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School; Gallaudet University; Honoraria for CMV Conference for Fostering Joy Care Team, FLC Center (Hands & Voices) Advisory Board, New England Deafblind Projects Advisory Board.