A hospital-based community paediatric unit.
Children with multiple handicaps often require the services of a team of professionals to ensure that they receive a comprehensive assessment. It is essential that the information derived from this assessment is conveyed accurately to the child's parents in language that they understand. It is also important that a member of the assessment team is made responsible for seeing that the recommendations made for the child's future are actually carried out. On hundred and twenty-nine children referred for assessment of developmental delay were found to have multiple intellectual, physical and social problems needing a team approach to their assessment, and the mobilization of a variety of community resources to provide their ongoing care.
D001315:Australia; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006757:Hospital Units; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006782:Hospitals, Special; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010349:Patient Compliance; D011368:Professional-Family Relations