There has been a fair amount of study in the area of family adjustment to childhood disability. However, little attention has been given more peripheral family members, such as grandparents. This study explores the perceptions of mothers (N = 42) of children with disabilities of the amount of instrumental and psychological support offered by her child's maternal and paternal grandparents. The results showed that: grandmothers were perceived to be more supportive than grandfathers, the fathers' mother were less supportive than the mothers' mother, and the mothers' parents were judged to be more supportive than the fathers' parents. The findings were discussed within the context of the family system.
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