title: Portage guide to early intervention: cross-cultural aspects and intra-cultural variability.
abstract: The issues arising from implementing an early intervention service, developed in the rural United States in the late 1960s in a range of different cultural contexts over a period of a quarter of a century, are explained. Services from India, Bangladesh, Jamaica and the United Kingdom are compared. As well as considering cross-cultural aspects of Portage, variability within one country, the United Kingdom, is considered by comparing one service in an inner-city area and one in a rural area.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Abilene State School, Texas 79604.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sturmey
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Thorburn
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Reed
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kaur
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: King
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D001459:Bangladesh; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003906:Developing Countries; D004493:Education; D005006:Ethnicity; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007563:Jamaica; D008297:Male; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States