A community-based rehabilitation programme for preschool disabled children in Guyana

Efficacy of Community‐Based Rehabilitation for Children with or at Significant Risk of Intellectual Disabilities in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: A Review

“…1986, McConachie et al. 2000), Botswana (Nordholm & Lundgren‐Lindquist 1999), Guyana (O’Toole 1988), Jamaica (Thorburn 1992), Vietnam (Shin et al. 2009), Zimbabwe (Mariga & McConkey 1987) and one study reports findings from both the Phillipines and Zimbabwe (Lagerkvist 1992).…”

“…2000, Shin et al. 2009), and there was one multiple baseline study (O’Toole 1988). Other studies might be classed as pre‐/post‐test evaluations (Lagerkvist 1992; Menon et al.…”

Epilepsy control in the twenty‐first century: hidden impact on children and families

“…One does not have to travel very far to realize that assumptions that hold in a small village can be unsafe in the big city. Goldbart & Mukherjee (1999) in urban India replicated, in part, a childhood disability intervention model from Guyana (O’Toole 1988). They studied the appropriateness of transferring western models of parent involvement, and found that parents shared western beliefs that teaching can affect the progress of children's development; but mothers and fathers had different domestic roles from those in Guyana, according to family structure and availability of servants.…”

The impact of rehabilitative services in the lives of adults and children with disabilities, in low-income and middle-income countries: an assessment of the quality of the evidence

“…Six out of the ten studies had a sample size of 200 or more [27][28][29][30][31][32]. Three studies did not describe any sampling methods used [28,31,33] and only one study conducted sample size calculations [34]. Two studies were retrospective in design [30,35], one in which sample is not representative of population [30].…”