ABSTRACT
Hispanic families of children with behavioral problems face many issues, particularly when the problems are organic in nature. Language barriers (for immigrants to the United States), minority status, financial limitations and concomitantly living in disadvantaged (often high crime) neighborhoods, lack of understanding by service providers (including school personnel) of the impact of cognitive limitations on behavioral regulation, and limited community support and advocacy systems, are some of those issues. Individually, each presents a formidable challenge; in combination they assume catastrophic proportions. Two cases, Raúl and Francisco, illustrate these issues.
