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Recollecti ng Adolescent Experiences of Individuals Having a Sibling with Down’s Syndrome: A Qualitati ve Study
(Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, SLIIT, 2024-12-04) Ranwala, W; Fernando, T
Adolescence is a crucial life stage marked by an individual’s transiti on into adulthood. Contrary to those with typically developing siblings, individuals who have a sibling with Down Syndrome (DS) follow a unique trajectory of life experiences associated with their sibling’s conditi on. Yet, this is an area unexplored in Sri Lankan scholarly research. The present study att empts to address this research gap by exploring adolescent experiences of having a sibling with DS; as recalled by adults. The study was conducted qualitati vely, uti lising semi-structured interviews. Data collected was analysed using themati c analysis. The sample consisted of six parti cipants who were adults, had a sibling with Down Syndrome, and were fl uent in English and/or Sinhala. Three main themes emerged addressing adolescent experiences att ributed to the DS sibling, in terms of; the nature of the sibling relati onship, family dynamics, challenges and coping with social support. Respecti ve subthemes highlight several details. Parents and siblings gradually adapted to the individual with DS, resulti ng in close familial relati onships. Parti cipants also illustrated how the sibling relati onship shaped them as individuals. Parental diff erenti al treatment and future caregiving responsibiliti es were expressed as challenging, along with societal discriminati on and sti gmati zati on. However, social support through extended family and peers helped cope with such challenges. Conclusively, adolescent experiences of having a sibling with DS consti tute both favourable and challenging aspects, infl uenced by many individual-specifi c and environmental elements.
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Parents’ Agreements to Actions That Can Be Taken by the School for the Intervention of Parents Towards the Teaching-Learning Process of Adolescent Students in the School
(Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, SLIIT, 2023-11-01) Manewa, R.M.E.S.; Jayarathna, R.N.H.M.S
Parents have a special place for the people who teach students. Support given by the parents is a must for a successful teaching- learning process. Both the school and parents are highly important for students who are getting ready to face the General Certificate of Education (Ordinal Level) exam step by step. Teachers, students, parents and all the others involve in the field of education will find this study is important. As the objectives of this study, identifying the agreements of parents to actions taken by the school to intervene parents in to Teaching-Learning process, identification of agreements which are approved by majority of parents and managing and ranking those agreements can be mentioned. A Survey has been used for this study and the sample includes 60 students who are studying in grade 10 and 11 classes of the only 1AB school of Mawathagama Educational Division and Sixty parents either mother or father of 15 boys and 15 girls of both 10A and 11A. Purposive sampling has been used to select the parents. Questionnaires were used and preparation of questionnaires and data analysis were done based on actions that can be used to get parents’ support to school introduce by Allen, Epstein and others. Quantitative and qualitative data has been analyzed. Majority of the parents have agreed to hold programs and functions toassess parents that assist the school. Minority of parents have which parents for different school functions in which they can assist in health activities of family. Generally it can be concluded that parents show less interest to spend lot of time in the school for intervention inside the school premises.
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Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Adults’ Recollections of Others’ Reactions to Their Early Gender Non-conformity
(Faculty of Humanities and Sciences,SLIIT, 2021-09-25) Munasinghe, K; Marecek, J
Globally, gender non-conforming (GNC) behaviours are identified as one of the earliest precursors of same sex orientation. The role of reactions by key persons such as parents, teachers and peers to such behaviours is crucial to sexual identity development. In Sri Lanka, there are currently no scholarly data on LGB adults’ recollections of their early experiences, particularly those involving how others reacted to their early GNC and gender atypical behaviours. Through narratives, this exploratory research paper addresses this gap by presenting how 26 LGB adults recalled the manner in which their parents, teachers, and peers responded to their gender-atypical and gender non-conforming behaviours during childhood and adolescence. A participant-focused thematic analysis highlighted the following findings: permissiveness of adults towards childhood gender non-conformity for both boys and girls; how adults’ attitudes shifted during adolescence to be more regulatory; and how adolescent girls and boys recalled experientially different reactions to their GNC behaviours by their peers. These results suggest the nuances of recollections growing up as GNC children and adolescents, and the impact these experiences had on the acceptance of a sexual identity. Future research could begin by observing actual gender nonconformity and gender atypical behaviours in children and adolescence.

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