THE PROGRESS OF DEVELOPMENTALLY DELAYED PRE‐SCHOOL CHILDREN IN A HOME‐TRAINING SCHEME
- 1 May 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Child: Care, Health and Development
- Vol. 6 (3) , 157-164
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2214.1980.tb00807.x
Abstract
Summary The present study compared the rates of development of a group of 35 pre-school children in a home-training scheme. The children entered the service at different ages and suffered from different disabilities. The families received weekly visiting from a home advisor, who was specially trained to develop skills in the parents to help their children. Those who developed most rapidly were the group of environmentally deprived children. The non-specific developmentally delayed and Down's syndrome children progressed well during the study period. The children who suffered from cerebral palsy and those with visual handicaps developed at a very slow rate, despite the training that they were receiving. This finding may reflect the severity of their handicaps but also it suggests that the needs of these particular groups should be further examined. The age of entry to the scheme did not seem to be an important variable. The individual variability within each specified group was wide.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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