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Narrative Review | Special Education | Volume 15 Issue 4, April 2026 | Pages: 335 - 339 | India
A Conceptual Framework for Family Support, School Partnership, and Long-Term Development for Autism Parenting as an Integrated Ecology of Care
Abstract: Autism parenting is often represented through discrete domains such as diagnosis, communication, routines, discipline, school adjustment, caregiver stress, and transition planning. However, both family-systems scholarship and family-centered autism research suggest that families experience these domains not as isolated problems but as interdependent processes embedded in everyday life, relationships, institutions, and time. This paper advances an Integrated Ecology of Care framework for conceptualizing autism parenting as a dynamic, multidimensional system of interpretive, regulatory, communicative, relational, educational, and developmental care. The paper draws deeply on a cluster of autism-parenting books by Singh-covering autism understanding, daily routines, communication, positive parenting, school partnership, caregiver self-care, and life beyond childhood- and places them in dialogue with peer-reviewed literature on family-centered care, family quality of life, parent-mediated intervention, parental stress, family resilience, home-school collaboration, inclusion, and transition to adulthood. The paper argues that autism parenting should be understood not as a sequence of disconnected tasks, but as an ecology in which changes in one domain shape outcomes in the others. The framework has implications for parent education, multidisciplinary intervention planning, family-school collaboration, inclusive practice, and future autism-family research.
Keywords: autism parenting, family-centered care, family systems, caregiver well-being, home-school partnership, transition to adulthood, inclusive education
How to Cite?: Jasmine Khanna, "A Conceptual Framework for Family Support, School Partnership, and Long-Term Development for Autism Parenting as an Integrated Ecology of Care", Volume 15 Issue 4, April 2026, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 335-339, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=SR26404132534, DOI: https://dx.dx.doi.org/10.21275/SR26404132534