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Narrative Review | Special Education | Volume 15 Issue 3, March 2026 | Pages: 1702 - 1706 | India
Autism Parenting as an Integrated Ecology of Support: A Conceptual Review of Home, School, Health, and Future Planning
Abstract: Autism parenting is frequently discussed through segmented domains such as communication difficulties, behavior management, school adjustment, or caregiver stress. While such domain-specific approaches are useful, they often fail to capture the interdependence of everyday family practices, educational supports, health-sensitive care, and long-term planning. This conceptual review argues that autism parenting is more accurately understood as an integrated ecology of support that spans understanding autism, communication facilitation, behavioral regulation, environmental structuring, school collaboration, health management, social participation, transition planning, and caregiver sustainability. The paper draws primarily on a focused parent-oriented corpus of ten books by Singh and situates that corpus within selected official texts from WHO, CDC, NIMH, the U.S. Department of Education, the Government of Ireland, and the Government of India. The review shows that parental efficacy is strengthened when families move from diagnostic uncertainty toward informed, routinized, and future-oriented action. It further argues that communication support and positive discipline operate as foundational home-based mechanisms of co-regulation, that school partnership and inclusive-education guidance extend autism support beyond domestic care, and that transition planning and caregiver wellbeing are central rather than peripheral dimensions of responsible caregiving. The article concludes by proposing an ecological model of autism parenting in which child development and family resilience are treated as mutually dependent processes.
Keywords: autism parenting, family ecology, communication support, inclusive education, school partnership, transition planning, caregiver resilience
How to Cite?: Chetna Suri, "Autism Parenting as an Integrated Ecology of Support: A Conceptual Review of Home, School, Health, and Future Planning", Volume 15 Issue 3, March 2026, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 1702-1706, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=SR26328214334, DOI: https://dx.dx.doi.org/10.21275/SR26328214334