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SummaryA health visitor was seconded to a university based research team studying early intervention with families who have an infant with Down's syndrome. She was given a 3‐week practical training and then provided a home‐based service for 61 families, visiting every 6 weeks until 2 years of age. Infant development and parental satisfaction with the service were compared to previous findings of the research group. Parental satisfaction was found to be very high and the progress of the infants compared favourably to previous studies. Following this, two field health visitors were given the training and then provided a service in their local areas. The progress of the infants was monitored at 6‐month intervals until 2 years of age, and parents were interviewed. Again no differences were found in the developmental progress of the infants and previous groups and parental satisfaction was high. The limitations of the training and some implications for practice were disc

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1982.tb00264.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1982

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryHoneylands is a family support unit for families with handicapped children and is part of the National Health Service. Its services include day care, therapy and ‘on demand’ short‐term residential care. The research reported here was part of an independent evaluation of Honeylands based on interviews with parents of young handicapped children in the Exeter area. This is the first of three papers arising from these interviews and it considers in detail the experiences of 39 families who had made use of Honeylands' preschool facilities, from the initial referral onwards. Particular attention is paid to the development of the relationship between parents and staff, since this is felt to be an essential prerequisite for parents' acceptance of Honeylands' ser

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1982.tb00265.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1982

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryGroup and individual ability profiles of 89 English 4‐year‐olds on the McCarthy scales of children's abilities (MSCA) are presented. The results suggest that at this age, there is a high expectation of obtaining at least one significant difference between a child's mean ability score and the individual ability of index scores. The direction of these significant differences in ability suggested that, in this age group, abilities measured by the MSCA verbal and perceptual performance indexes tend to be more advanced than abilities measured by the quantitative and memory indexes. Motor development is relatively retarded compared to these other abilities. (The results are at variance with the often accepted concept of a ‘flat’ ability profile in normal children.)The use of the MSCA on English children could result in over referral of normal children, especially boys, who appear delayed on the motor index, and under referral of children who were regarded as normal on the verbal and perceptual

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1982.tb00266.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1982

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1982.tb00267.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1982

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:Children with Specific Learning Difficultiesby P. Tansley and J. Paulrush.Psychoanalytic Study of the Childedited by Solnit etal.Children's Well Beingby J. Brierley.A Prescriptive Behavioral Checklist for the Severely and Profoundly Retardedby Dorothy Popovic.Prader‐Willi Syndromeedited by Vanja A. Holm, Stephen S. Sulzbecker and Peggy L. Pipes.Health Education in Schoolsedited by James Cowley, Kenneth David and Trefor Williams.Children who have Fitsby G. P. McMullin.Vulnerabilities to Delinquencyedited by D. O. Lewis.The Expectant Fatherby Betty Parson

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1982.tb00268.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1982

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1982.tb00269.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1982

数据来源: WILEY