Portage guide to early intervention: cross-cultural aspects and intra-cultural variability.
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.
Sturmey
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Department of Psychology, Abilene State School, Texas 79604.
Thorburn
M J
MJ
Brown
J M
JM
Reed
J
J
Kaur
J
J
King
G
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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