Family+with+terminally+sick+child

Family with Terminally Sick Child

Problems
 * It is hard for parents to promote self-discipline as well as self-esteem to their child.
 * Parents will most likely be exhausted, often discouraged, and even cut off from their family and friends as they deal with the inevitable day to day emergencies.
 * Students with terminal illness will miss an abundance of school.
 * Tender subject with classmates.
 * Young children who are sick may tend to challenge authority.

Statistics
 * Terminally ill would much rather die at home rather than in hospital.
 * A recent study of seriously ill patients found that dying at home was considered less important than many other factors such as pain relief, or achieving a "sense of completion" before death.

Teachers
 * Teachers can ask the child's parents if they can discuss the illness with the class.
 * If the child is having a surgery, the teacher can perform an activity in class to help demonstrates to the classmates what is really going to happen.
 * If the child is receiving treatment from a local hospice or hospital, there is often a nurse or social worker whose job includes visiting schools to explain to pupils about a friend's illness and treatments involved.
 * Effective communication with parents and child with the illness.

Parents
 * Keep communicating with their child and the teacher, let the teacher know some of the things they can do at school to help.
 * Consider if hospice members are needed.

Resources [] [|**http://specialneedseducation.suite101.com/article.cfm/supporting_parents_of_terminally_ill_children#ixzz0SuGIJKTk**] [[http://www.state.nj.us/health/chs/topicspod.pdf |http://www.state.nj.us/health/chs/topicspod.pdf

]] Sources [|Trinity Hospice] [|When You Wish Upon A Star] [|The Sunshine Foundation] [|Hospice, Inc.]