Not enough is known about parents' experiences of receiving the news that their child warrants a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Sharing this information with parents is an important and difficult part of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) practice. Qualitative methodology was used to explore the experiences of the 'feedback session' with nine sets of parents in a community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in North East England. Parents gave vivid accounts of their experiences and described issues relating to the structure, style and content of the session. The experiences of CAMHS users should inform the development of good practice in this important area.
SUMMARY A community‐based investigation of the nature, characteristics and evolution of speech and language delay in a sample of 3‐year‐olds is being carried out in Cambridgeshire. 1936 parents completed a preschool language checklist (PLC) to identify children at risk of language difficulties. Two hundred and seventy‐seven children at risk together with 148 controls completed a scries of preliminary face‐to‐face standard language tests to determine expressive, receptive and phonological skills. Concordance between the Cambridge Language and Speech Project (CLASP) identification and speech therapy involvement suggests that the overall (CLASP) screening procedure identified a number of children that current surveillance had missed and support the conclusion that the PLC may be a useful adjunct for child health care services as an aid in prioritising children for referral to speech therapy services. Children with scores of 1 to 3 at 36 months should be reviewed at 39 months, and those with 4 or more should be a high priority for referral. Preliminary examination of the impairment profile suggests that children with language impairments rather than pure speech impairments at 36 and 39 months are more likely to have a broader range of overall language‐related deficit. RÉSUMÉ Le ‘Cambridge Language and Speech Project’ (CLASP). Détection des difficultés de langage à 36 et 39 mois. Une recherche sur une population globale, sur la nature, les caractéristiques et l'évolution du retard de parole et de langage sur un échantillon ďenfants de 3 ans est actuellement menée dans le Cambridgeshire. 1936 parents remplirent une checkliste sur le langage préscolairc (PLC) en vue ďidentifier les enfants à risque de difficultés de langage. Des tests de langage standards en face à face furent pratiqués chez 277 enfants à risques et 148 contrôles pour une approche préliminaire. en vue de déterminer les capacités ďexpression, de compréhension et de phonologique. La concordance entre ľidentification par le CLASP et la pratique ďune rééducation orthophonique suggère que ľévaluation CLASP identifia nombre ďenfants que la surveillance habituelle avait négligés et conduit à penser que le PLC peut constituer une adjonction utile pour les services de PMI de façon à orienter en priorité certains enfants vers les services de rééducation orthophonique. Un examen préliminaire des profiles de troubles suggère que les enfants avec troubles du langage plutôt que de troubles isolés de parole à 36 et 39 mois sont plus exposés a des déficits ultérieurs sur tous les aspects de langage. ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Das Cambridge Sprach‐ and Sprech‐Projekt (CLASP):Feststellung von Sprachschwierigkeiten im Alter von 36 bis 39 Monaten. In Cambridgeshire wurde eine Untersuchung über Art, Charakteristika und Entstehung von Sprech‐und Sprachverzögerungen bei einer Gruppe von Dreijährigen durchgeführt. 1936 Eltern füllten einen Vorschul‐Sprachbogen (PLC) aus, um Risikokindcr für Sprachschwierigkeiten zu identifizieren. 277 Risikokinder und 148 Kontrollen rriachten eine Serie ...
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