title: Putting it on tape: audio taped assessment summaries for parents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the benefits of giving parents tape recorded child development centre assessment report summaries.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospective randomly allocated study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Child development centre, Birmingham Children's Hospital.
  
  
  METHODS
  Parents of 113 consecutive children attending for multidisciplinary developmental assessment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Recall of information and use of, and views on, the written and tape recorded summaries.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Parents who received the tape recording showed no increase in recall of the summary's content six weeks later. Forty three per cent of English speaking parents favoured the tape recorded summary, as did 89% of Urdu/Punjabi speaking parents.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Tape recorded summaries were popular with parents, but other methods are needed to help parents, especially those whose first language is not English, to understand the implications of multidisciplinary assessment of their child.
authors.affiliation: Child Development Centre, Birmingham Children's Hospital.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Ilett
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005006:Ethnicity; D005220:Fathers; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D009035:Mothers; D010154:Pakistan / Q000208:ethnology; D010290:Parents; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011932:Reading; D013637:Tape Recording