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Changes in the social-emotional functioning of young children with a significant cognitive and motor developmental delay across a two-year period

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Children with a significant cognitive and motor developmental delay (SDD) are vulnerable for the development of (future) behavioral and mental health problems. To support children within this target group, knowledge on their social-emotional development is necessary. Therefore, in this paper, an explorative assessment of the changes in the social-emotional functioning of children with SDD over a two-year period was done. Yearly semi-structured interviews with one or more primary caregiver(s) of 25 children were conducted and analyzed on 13 domains of social-emotional functioning, according to an adapted version of the Scale for Emotional Development - Revised (SED-R). This study showed a lot of variation in individual and group patterns of change across the two-year period. Charting the social-emotional development in this target group is challenging and requires further in-depth analysis of individual trajectories as well as more fine-grained and long-term data collection.
Journal: International Journal of Developmental Disabilities
ISSN: 2047-3869
Issue: 6
Volume: 68
Pages: 867 - 879
Publication year:2022
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BOF-publication weight:0.1
CSS-citation score:1
Authors from:Higher Education
Accessibility:Open