McLaughlin Tara W, Snyder Patricia A, Algina James
a Institute of Education, College of Humanities and Social Sciences , Massey University , Palmerston North , New Zealand.
b Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies , School of Special Education, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Studies, College of Education, University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA.
Disabil Rehabil. 2018 Dec;40(25):2987-2997. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2017.1363823. Epub 2017 Aug 13.
To explore the use of International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health for Children and Youth (ICF-CY) based profiles of children's functional abilities in relation to their social competence. Subgroups based on shared profiles of functional ability were investigated as an alternative or complement to subgroups defined by disability categories.
Secondary analysis of a nationally representative data set of young children identified for special education services in the United States was used for the present study. Using five subgroups of children with shared profiles of functional ability, derived from latent class analysis in previous work, regression analyses were used to examine the relationships between social competence and functional abilities profile subgroup membership. Differences among the subgroups were examined using standardized effect sizes. R values were used to examine explained variance in social competence in relation to subgroup membership, disability category, and these variables in combination.
Functional ability profile subgroup membership was moderately related to children's social competence outcomes: social skills and problem behaviors. Effect sizes showed significant differences between subgroups. Subgroup membership accounted for more variance in social competence outcomes than disability category.
The results provide empirical support for the importance of functional ability profiles when examining social competence within a population of young children with disabilities. Implications for Rehabilitation The extent to which children with disabilities experience difficulty with social competence varies by their functional characteristics. Functional ability profiles can provide practitioners and researchers working young children with disabilities important tools to examine social competence and to inform interventions.
探讨使用基于《儿童和青少年功能、残疾与健康国际分类》（ICF-CY）的儿童功能能力概况来研究其社会能力。研究基于功能能力共享概况的亚组，作为由残疾类别定义的亚组的替代或补充。
本研究使用了对美国为特殊教育服务而确定的幼儿全国代表性数据集的二次分析。利用先前工作中通过潜在类别分析得出的五个具有功能能力共享概况的儿童亚组，采用回归分析来检验社会能力与功能能力概况亚组成员身份之间的关系。使用标准化效应量来检验亚组之间的差异。R值用于检验与亚组成员身份、残疾类别以及这些变量组合相关的社会能力解释方差。
功能能力概况亚组成员身份与儿童的社会能力结果（社交技能和问题行为）存在中等程度的关联。效应量显示亚组之间存在显著差异。亚组成员身份在社会能力结果中所占的方差比残疾类别更多。
研究结果为在残疾幼儿群体中考察社会能力时功能能力概况的重要性提供了实证支持。对康复的启示残疾儿童在社会能力方面遇到困难的程度因其功能特征而异。功能能力概况可为从事残疾幼儿工作的从业者和研究人员提供重要工具，以考察社会能力并为干预提供信息。
