Women’s perceptions of how their dyslexia impacts on their mothering

Reference:

Skinner, T., 2013. Women’s perceptions of how their dyslexia impacts on their mothering. Disability and Society, 28 (1), pp. 81-95.

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Official URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2012.695526

Abstract

Women with children have been depicted as struggling to justify themselves in the shadow of intensive mothering ideology. However, little is said about women who have a disability such as dyslexia, and how disability may intersect with intensive mothering ideology to present additional challenges. In this paper, life-story interviews are drawn upon to start to unpack the ways in which mothering and dyslexia may intersect. The themes discussed include: fear and perceived challenges of having a child with dyslexia; how mothers perceived their impairments manifest in their mothering, including poor organisational skills, short-term memory, reading and spelling; and how mothers may attempt to reframe the apparent contradiction between a ‘good’ mother and a mother with dyslexia by, for example, portraying themselves as a positive role-model for their child and better able to identify and cater for their child’s needs.

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