Beyond child development centres: care coordination for children with disabilities. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A specific model of care coordination for children with disabilities is described, comprising parental empowerment, a defined client population, individual tailoring of service based on assessment of need, inter-agency collaboration beyond existing team boundaries, continuity of named professional contact across transitions important to families, and a named care coordinator. The first stages of local implementation of the model are described for children with a disability making the transition into nursery school provision. Qualitative findings from interviews with families and care coordinators are presented, and the possibility of care coordinators providing a Named Person function is examined.

publication date

  • January 1, 1997

Research

keywords

  • Case Management
  • Child Health Services
  • Developmental Disabilities
  • Disabled Persons
  • Models, Organizational
  • Patient-Centered Care

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0030635689

PubMed ID

  • 9023029

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 23

issue

  • 1