Journal article
Predictors of parents seeking help or advice about children's communication development in the early years
J Skeat, P Eadie, O Ukoumunne, S Reilly
Child Care Health and Development | Published : 2010
Abstract
Background Children's access to services for communication disorders is often determined by parental decisions to seek help or advice. The factors that predict whether parents seek help/advice about their child's communication development were explored in this study.Methods Parents of children in a large, community cohort of children (the Early Language in Victoria Study) were asked whether they had sought help or advice about speech and language development at 1, 2, 3 and 4 years. Child, family and environmental variables, as well as parental concern and children's communication status, were used to predict help/advice seeking. The communication abilities of those in the help-seeking group ..
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Awarded by Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Awarded by Human Research Ethics Committees at the Royal Children's Hospital
Awarded by La Trobe University
Funding Acknowledgements
The ELVS study is supported by Project Grant 237106 from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and small grants from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and the Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University. Authors JS and OCU each hold a NHMRC training fellowship (Capacity Building Grant in Population Health #436914). Ethical approval for the study was obtained from Human Research Ethics Committees at the Royal Children's Hospital (#23081) and La Trobe University (#03-32).