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AN INTERVIEW TECHNIQUE IN ASSESSING RETARDED CHILDREN A Comparative Study of the Reliability of the Children's Handicaps, Behaviour and Skills (HBS) Schedule
Author(s) -
BERNSEN ALICE HJORT
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1980.tb00071.x
Subject(s) - alice (programming language) , citation , psychiatry , intellectual disability , psychology , schedule , pediatrics , medicine , library science , history , computer science , art history , operating system
A new assessment instrument the Children's Handicaps, Behaviour and Skills Schedule (HBS Schedule), constructed in England, has been used in a Danish epidemiological survey to interview the parents and professionals involved with 148 severely retarded children. Results as to reliability between informants and congruity with similar results from a study in Camberwell, England, are presented and discussed. It is concluded that the HBS Schedule constitutes a very valuable supplement in the evaluation of such children and deserves propagation for routine application, provided satisfactory instructions to interviewers can be given.