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Beyond child development centres: care coordination for children with disabilities
Author(s) -
Appleton P L,
Böll V,
Everett J M,
Kelley A M,
Meredith K H,
Payne T G
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2214.1997.839839.x
Subject(s) - empowerment , agency (philosophy) , nursing , foster care , function (biology) , service (business) , population , psychology , medicine , sociology , business , political science , social science , environmental health , marketing , evolutionary biology , law , biology
A specific model of care coordination for children with disabilities is described, comprising parental empowerment, a defined client population, individual tailoring of service based on assessment of need, inter‐agency collaboration beyond existing team boundaries, continuity of named professional contact across transitions important to families, and a named care coordinator. The first stages of local implementation of the model are described for children with a disability making the transition into nursery school provision. Qualitative findings from interviews with families and care coordinators are presented, and the possibility of care coordinators providing a Named Person function is examined.