I am the parent of an adult child with learning disabilities and also a learning disability nurse. I have just had a new paper published in the Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities about how parents describe the positive aspects of parenting their child with learning disabilities. Interestingly, although describing the positives, the themes identified by parents also appear to be consistent with coping and post traumatic growth (the opposite end of the spectrum to PTSD). The paper can be downloaded and freely distributed from: