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When Diagnosis Is Uncertain: Variation in Conclusions after Psychological Assessment of a Six-Year-Old Child
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Russell, Ginny; Norwich, Brahm; Gwernan-Jones, Ruth – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
A six-year-old child was independently assessed by three licensed educational (school) psychologists and one interdisciplinary team in the UK. All but one of these practitioners believed their assessment to be the first. The aim was to compare the practice of assessors and their conclusions especially in diagnostic categorisation. The methods of…
Descriptors: Identification, Learning Problems, Foreign Countries, Asperger Syndrome
Observations of Social Competence of Children in Need of Special Support Based on Traditional Disability Categories versus a Functional Approach
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Lillvist, Anne – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
Background: Traditional disability categories may reveal little of the functional characteristics and social competence of a child. Objective: To compare the social competence of typically developing children, children with established disabilities and undiagnosed children identified by a functional approach to be in need of special support.…
Descriptors: Profiles, Play, Discriminant Analysis, Interpersonal Competence
Discriminating Children with Autism from Children with Learning Difficulties with an Adaptation of the Short Sensory Profile
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O'Brien, Justin; Tsermentseli, Stella; Cummins, Omar; Happe, Francesca; Heaton, Pamela; Spencer, Janine – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
In this article, we examine the extent to which children with autism and children with learning difficulties can be discriminated from their responses to different patterns of sensory stimuli. Using an adapted version of the Short Sensory Profile (SSP), sensory processing was compared in 34 children with autism to 33 children with typical…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Autism, Learning Disabilities, Discriminant Analysis
Family Day Care and Day Care Centres: Carer, Family and Child Differences and Their Implications.
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Erwin, Peter J.; And Others – Early Child Development and Care, 1993
Compared child, maternal, and caregiver characteristics in two day-care settings and the utility of a goodness-of-fit framework as a means of assessing the impact of parent-caregiver differences on children's adjustment. Found differences between mothers who chose the two different day cares and between caregivers in the two settings.…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Comparative Analysis, Day Care Centers, Evaluation Methods