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Behavioral Assessment of Hearing in 2 to 4 Year-old Children: A Two-interval, Observer-based Procedure Using Conditioned Play-based Responses
Published on: January 23, 2017
[Age and development related changes in counseling priorities for pediatric home visits]
Insights
Home visits are crucial for early childhood development, offering primary prevention and support for parents. This approach promotes healthy child development by addressing knowledge gaps and fostering age-appropriate stimulation.
Area of Science:
- Child Development
- Pediatric Health
- Parental Education
Context:
- Prophylactic care for children up to three years old.
- Addressing parental knowledge and experience gaps.
- Promoting undisturbed child development.
Purpose:
- To advocate for increased home visits in early childhood.
- To highlight the role of home visits in primary prevention.
- To support age-adjusted motivation for child development.
Summary:
- Home visits are essential for identifying and addressing child development challenges stemming from parental inexperience.
- They serve as an effective method for primary prevention, contributing to harmonious childhood development.
- Counseling priorities must adapt to the child's age and developmental stage, with examples provided for one-year-olds.
Impact:
- Enhances early intervention strategies for child development.
- Strengthens the parent-child relationship through informed support.
- Contributes to long-term positive child health outcomes.
Abstract:
More home visits should be made in the context of prophylactic care for children up to three years of age, in order to come to grips with problems of child development likely to results from the inadequate knowledge and experience of parents and to promote age-adjusted motivation for the undisturbed development of their children. In this sense home visits can be an effective approach to primary prevention and a contribution to harmonious development in childhood. The priorities of counselling and their content are subject to change, depending on the age and development of the children involved. Examples are given of age-adjusted stimulation of development for one-year-old children. They are based on results of empirical investigations conducted between 1984 and 1987.
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