Mother-professional agreement about developmental delay in preschool children: a preliminary report

By: Glaun, Daphne E.
Contributor(s): Cole, Kathleen E | Reddihough, Dinah S.
Series: Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities 12 (1) 1999: 69-76. 1999Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume Subject(s): PARENT PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS | CHILD DEVELOPMENT | DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY | ASSESSMENTSummary: Current practice prescribes that parents play an intergal part in the assesment and management of their preschool child with suspected developmental delay. Multidisciplinary assesment aims to enchance parents understanding of the nature and extent of the delay with a view to promoting parent-professional agreement about inventions. Serious mismatches between parents and therapists in their judgement of developmental status are potentially important markers of families at risk of sub-optimal use of invention services. This study compared mothers preceptions of their child's development with the results of standardised tests in key domains. A 14 item questionaire constructed to measure mothers preceptions of current and future development, was administered pre-and-post-developmental assesment. Preliminary results suggest that mothers recognised the existence of delayed development, but underestimated its severity. Levels of congruence varied with domain. Predictions about future development revealed that most mothers interpreted the delay as temporary implications for clinical practice are discussed.[AJ].
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Current practice prescribes that parents play an intergal part in the assesment and management of their preschool child with suspected developmental delay. Multidisciplinary assesment aims to enchance parents understanding of the nature and extent of the delay with a view to promoting parent-professional agreement about inventions. Serious mismatches between parents and therapists in their judgement of developmental status are potentially important markers of families at risk of sub-optimal use of invention services. This study compared mothers preceptions of their child's development with the results of standardised tests in key domains. A 14 item questionaire constructed to measure mothers preceptions of current and future development, was administered pre-and-post-developmental assesment. Preliminary results suggest that mothers recognised the existence of delayed development, but underestimated its severity. Levels of congruence varied with domain. Predictions about future development revealed that most mothers interpreted the delay as temporary implications for clinical practice are discussed.[AJ].

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