ABSTRACT
Parents of children with developmental disorders often experience more stress than parents of developmentally typical children. One way that the former cope with these stresses is to reach out to others going through similar experiences. For example, parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder often join online communities to connect with other parents. This chapter examines the language of one such type of community: parental blogs. With a corpus of “mom” and “dad” blogs, we use keyword analysis (Scott, 1997) to extract the words that are more often written about according to parental role and to time in relation to the diagnosis.
