OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to obtain data about typical children on the 99-item Sensory Profile, a newly developed tool derived from sensory history items reported in the literature and designed to assess children's responses to commonly occurring sensory events. METHOD Parents of 64 typical children 3 to 10 years of age completed the Sensory Profile; parents used a five-point L...

OBJECTIVE To investigate cross-cultural validity of a newly developed Assessment of Children's Hand Skills (ACHS) in children with and without disabilities. SUBJECTS One group of 138 Australian children and 134 Taiwanese children, age range 2-12 years (a total of 149 typically developing children and 123 children with disabilities). METHODS Rasch model analysis was used to evaluate rating s...

BACKGROUND Increasing emphasis on family-centred approaches to services and supports for families of children with disabilities has surfaced the issue of accountability for family outcomes. We present a review of literature about the impacts of children with disabilities on families as a backdrop to proposing family quality of life as a concept that encompasses impacts of disability and one tha...

BACKGROUND In the new Sustainable Development Goal 4, quality of education defined as equity and inclusion alongside traditional learning outcomes, has replaced the narrow goal of access to primary education stipulated in the Millennium Development Goal 2. Since 2000, considerable progress has been made towards improving access to school for children in India, yet questions remain regarding not...

This essay describes the setting up of early intervention services in Vietnam. From the outset, there was a focus on developing staff training programmes alongside establishing model early intervention programmes to ensure that the work would be sustained at the end of the project funding and spread throughout the country. The success of this work has now led to the government of Vietnam wantin...

Learning disabled children have been reported to be deficient in attention and memory performance, especially selective attention in the presence of irrelevant information. But this finding has not al-