Marty Wyngaarden Krauss

Title

Professor Emerita of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Sociology
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Expertise

Disability policy issues, family-based caregiving, and health services for people with disabilities. Research consists of several longitudinal studies of families with a child with disabilities.

Profile

The ability to take a life span perspective and to examine antecedents and consequences of changes in families has enriched findings and yielded unexpected results, and then teach students to learn about the varieties of human experiences.

Degrees

Brandeis University, Ph.D.

University of Michigan, B.A.

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Contact

Email:

krauss@brandeis.edu

Awards and Honors

Distinguished Research Award, The Arc - U.S. (2001 - 2002)

Christian Pueschel Memorial Research Award, given by the National Down Syndrome Congress (2000 - 2001)

Chair, Mass. Governor's Commission on Mental Retardation (1993 - 1999)

Associate Editor, Mental Retardation (1992)

Award for Research, Mass. Chapter, American Association on Mental Retardation (1992)

Board of Directors, Special Olympics International (1992 - 2002)

Councillor, International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability (1992 - 1995)

Excellence in Research Award, Boston Institute for Development of Infants and Parents, Inc., for collaborative study on early intervention (1992)

Fellow, Association on Mental Retardation (1992)

Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation Future Leaders Award (1990)

Scholarship

Esbensen, A. J., Seltzer, M. M., Krauss, M. W.. "Stability and change in health, functional abilities, and behavior problems among adults with and without Down syndrome." American Journal on Mental Retardation 113. 4 (2008): 263-277.

Krauss, M. W., Seltzer, M. M., Jacobson, H. T.. "Adults with autism living at home or in non-family settings: positive and negative aspects of residential status." Journal Of Intellectual Disability Research 49. (2005): 111-124.

Krauss, M. W., Abbeduto, L., Seltzer, M. M., Shattuck, P., Orsmond, G., Murphy, M. M.. "Psychological well-being and coping in mothers of youths with autism, Down syndrome, or fragile X syndrome." American Journal On Mental Retardation 109. 3 (2004): 237-254.

Krauss, M. W., Greenberg, J. S., Seltzer, M. M., Chou, R. J. A., Hong, J.. "The effect of quality of the relationship between mothers and adult children with schizophrenia, autism, or Down syndrome on maternal well-being: The mediating role of optimism." American Journal Of Orthopsychiatry 74. 1 (2004): 14-25.

Krauss, M. W., Leiter, V., Anderson, B., Wells, N.. "The consequences of caring - Effects of mothering a child with special needs." Journal Of Family Issues 25. 3 (2004): 379-403.

Krauss, M. W., Magana, S., Seltzer, M. M.. "Cultural context of caregiving: Differences in depression between Puerto Rican and non-Latina white mothers of adults with mental retardation." Mental Retardation 42. 1 (2004): 1-11.

Krauss, M. W., Orsmond, G. I., Seltzer, M. M.. "Peer relationships and social and recreational activities among adolescents and adults with autism." Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders 34. 3 (2004): 245-256.

Krauss, M. W., Seltzer, M. M., Abbeduto, L., Greenberg, J., Swe, A.. "Comparison groups in autism family research: Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, and schizophrenia." Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders 34. 1 (2004): 41-48.

Krauss, M. W., Gulley, S., Sciegaj, M., Wells, N.. "Access to specialty medical care for children with mental retardation, autism, and other special health care needs." Mental Retardation 41. 5 (2003): 329-339.

Krauss, M. W., Kim, H. W., Greenberg, J. S., Seltzer, M. M.. "The role of coping in maintaining the psychological well-being of mothers of adults with intellectual disability and mental illness." Journal Of Intellectual Disability Research 47. (2003): 313-327.

Krauss, M. W., Orsmond, G. I., Seltzer, M. M., Hong, J.. "Behavior problems in adults with mental retardation and maternal well-being: Examination of the direction of effects." American Journal On Mental Retardation 108. 4 (2003): 257-271.

Krauss, M. W., Robison, D.. "Lessons from the field: Participatory action research in a family research project." Mental Retardation 41. 6 (2003): 460-464.

Krauss, M. W., Seltzer, M. M., Shattuck, P. T., Orsmond, G., Swe, A., Lord, C.. "The symptoms of autism spectrum disorders in adolescence and adulthood." Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders 33. 6 (2003): 565-581.

Krauss,Martha W with M.M. Seltzer, J. Hong, and G.I. Orsmond. "Continuity or discontinuity of family involvement with adults with mental retardation following residential transitions." Mental Retardation 39. (2001): 181-194.

Krauss,Martha W with P. Hauser-Cram, J.E. Warfield, and J.P. Shonk. "Children with disabilities: A longitudinal study of child development and parent well-being." Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. vol. 66, Serial No.266, 2001

Krauss,Martha W, with N. Wells, S. Gulley, and B. Anderson. "Navigating systems of care: Results from a national survey of families of children with special health care needs." Children's Services: Social Policy, Research, and Practice 4. (2001): 165-187.

Krauss,Martha W with M.M. Seltzer, G.I. Orsmond, and C. Vestal. "Families of adolescents and adults with autism: Uncharted territory." International Review of Research on Mental Retardation 23. (2000).

Krauss,Martha W. "Family assessment within early intervention programs." Handbook of Early Childhood Programs. 2nd ed. Ed. eds. J.P. Shonkoff & S. Meisels.. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000

M.E. Warfield, M.W. Krauss, P. Hauser-Cram, C. "Adaptation during early childhood among mothers of children with disabilities.." Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 20. (1999): 9-16..

M.W. Krauss with P. Hauser-Cram, M.E. Warfield, J.P Shonkoff. "Family influences on adaptive development in young children with Down syndrome." Child Development 7. (1999): 979-989..

Krauss,Martha W, M.J. Guralnick.. Two generations of family research in early intervention, in The Effectiveness of Early Intervention. Baltimore, MD: Paul Brookes, 1997.

Krauss,Martha W, co-ed with M.M. Seltzer and M.P. Janicki. Life Course Perspectives on Adulthood and Old Age. Washington, D.C.: The American Association on Ment, 1994.

Krauss,Martha W, co-ed. with M.P. Janicki & M.M. Seltzer. Community Residences for Persons with Developmental Disabilities: Here to Stay. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Co., 1988.

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