Status and Unmet Needs of Family Rehabilitation for Children with Disabilities
LIU He-jian
WANG Kuei-yuan
PENG Guang-yang
WANG-Chen
WANG Xiao-dong
ZOU Bin
NIU Yang
CHEN Wen-hua
Abstract:Objective To investigate the current status of family rehabilitation for children with disability and the unmet needs of habili-tation/rehabilitation for their parents. Methods Family Rehabilitation Needs Survey Questionnaire was used to investigate 186 families of the children with disability from 5 rehabilitation institutions in 4 provinces. Results Most families accepted family rehabilitation, including family support, developed rehabilitation scheme, telephone counseling, real-time guidance and appointment for family rehabilitation. Most families would spent 1-2 hours a day for the family rehabilitation, and prefer the rehabilitation of gross motion. However, the rehabilitation agencies played less importance on supports of family rehabilitation. Conclusion The family rehabilitation supports needs to be improved in specification of rehabilitation process, developing rehabilitation scheme and quality control.
Keywords:children with disabilityfamily rehabilitationrehabilitation guidanceneedsinvestigation
Publication Date:2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date:2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages:3( 820-822 )
