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Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder: focus on strategies: building bridges with understanding project
- Editors:
- BLACKBURN Carolyn, (comp.)
- Publisher:
- Worcestershire County Council. Early Years and Childcare Service
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- Worcester
A number of different strategies are presented that may help overcome learning difficulties in children caused by foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and improve children's outcomes. The strategies are drawn from the international literature are presented in short easy to understand bullet points. Areas covered include social skills, hyperactivity, sleep patterns, complying with routines and boundaries, expressive and repetative language, concentration, short term memory, disruptive and aggressive behaviour, common misinterpretation of behavioural responses in children FASD, and problem solving. The areas covered are linked to Every Child Matters outcomes. The document is one of the resources to come from the Building Bridges with Understanding project.
Parents Plus Programme I: evaluation of its effectiveness for pre-school children with developmental disabilities and behavioural problems
- Authors:
- QUINN Mark, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 20(4), July 2007, pp.345-359.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Parents Plus programme with families of pre-school children with developmental disabilities and significant behavioural problems in the Irish health service. The Parents Plus programme is a group-based parent training package involving video modelling, which was designed to be effective for children with conduct problems, but without developmental disabilities. The research conducted pre- and post-treatment assessments with 22 treated cases and 19 waiting-list controls with a protocol that included the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, the Child Behaviour Checklist, the General Health Questionnaire-12, the Kansas Parental Satisfaction Scale, the Family Assessment Device, the Perceived Social Support Scale, the Family Inventory of Life Events and Changes, the Parenting Stress Index and the Questionnaire on Resources and Stress. Following the treatment, a comparison of treatment and control group means showed that the treated group showed better adjustment on the total difficulties scale of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. These gains were maintained at 10-month follow-up. Fifty per cent of treated cases showed clinically significant improvement and 14% showed reliable change on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. The treatment group reported a high level of satisfaction with the Parents Plus programme and showed significant goal attainment after treatment and at follow-up. For some families of pre-school children with developmental disabilities and significant behavioural problems, the Parents Plus programme is an effective intervention and may be incorporated into routine early intervention clinics in the Irish health service.
Problems of preschool children
- Editors:
- RICHMAN Naomi, LANSDOWN Richard
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 243p., tables, diags, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
Multidisciplinary analysis of the development of and problems of pre-school children, with chapters on: the family; social factors; early relationships; physical influences; language and communication; the clumsy child; children with learning difficulties; child abuse; behaviour and emotional problems; principles of management for behaviour disorders; feeding problems and failure to thrive; gender; child care away from the family; play; and the law and young children.