Potential Predictors of Child Progress as Measured by the Early Intervention Developmental Profile

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which various factors (demographics, intervention, and test score derivatives) were associated with observed developmental gains in a sample of 83 developmentally delayed children. The Early Intervention Developmental Profile (Rogers et al.,1981) was used to measure child progress. The differences between the pre- and posttest ratio scores (developmental age divided by chronological age) on each scale were the dependent variables in six regression analyses, one for each developmental domain (perceptual/fine motor, cognition, language, social, feeding, and gross motor). Each developmental domain generated a unique set of significant predictors. Potential predictors of overall child progress Included the two test score derivatives, the number of assessments and home visits, the mother's age, and the child's age at initial testing and medical risk status.

The Impact of Inclusion on Language Development and Social Competerne among Preschoolers with Disabilities

“…The finding that the preintervention level of development or degree of delay at pretest emerged as the strongest and most consistent predictor of gains in developmental outcome vari-Preschoolers with less severe disabilities did not make greater gains in inclusion settings, and children with more severe disabilities did not make greater gains in segregated settings. ables is consistent with other studies of early intervention and preschool program outcomes (Berlin, O'Neal, & Brooks-Gunn, 1998;Cole et al, 1991;Mafro et al, 1992;Mills et al, 1998;Schafer, Spalding, & Bell, 1987). As noted previously, pretest scores predicted a substantial and statistically significant proportion of the variance in posttest ability.…”