The present study was conducted to examine the Stress level among the parents of Children with Special Needs (CWSN). The data were collected from 100 sample of parents of the children with special needs, among the total sample 25 parents of Loco motor disability children, 25 parents of Visual Impaired children, 25 parents of Hearing Impaired children, and 25 parents of Mentally Retarded children. Stratified random sampling technique was used for this study. Stress Questionnaire developed by Latha Satish (1997) was used for this study to assess the level of stress. The results indicated that significant differences were observed in Stress levels among the parents of children with special needs with regard to Parental gender, age, occupation and Category of children with special needs.

Children with special needs, Hearing impaired, Mental retardation, Locomotor disabled, Stress, Visually impaired