Firth H
Child Care Health Dev. 1982 Mar-Apr;8(2):77-91. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1982.tb00271.x.
Workshops designed to help parents teach their mentally handicapped children new skills and new habits were offered for 4 years as part of a wider service. This was the first time such a service had been available to any family within an area, population 250 000, and all families with mentally handicapped children under age 8 were invited to join the workshops. Workshops objectives were to teach parents skills in observation, selection and teaching of new skills and new behaviour, and to provide parents with confidence and support from other parents as well as professionals. workshops ran one evening/week for between 8 and 12 weeks, and nine workshops were held with a total of 40 families attending. Attendance was high and success was considerable with the problems tackled during the workshops. Nevertheless, the original objectives of the workshops were only fulfilled in part, as it is uncertain how much the methods taught during the workshop were applied to subsequent problems. The paper discusses the value of such workshops as a way of providing both practical help and support to families.
作为一项更广泛服务的一部分，旨在帮助家长教导其智障儿童新技能和新习惯的工作坊开展了4年。这是该地区（人口25万）首次向任何家庭提供此类服务，所有有8岁以下智障儿童的家庭都受邀参加这些工作坊。工作坊的目标是教授家长观察、选择和教授新技能及新行为的技巧，并为家长提供来自其他家长以及专业人士的信心和支持。工作坊每周一晚开展，为期8至12周，共举办了9期，共有40个家庭参加。出勤率很高，工作坊期间解决的问题取得了相当大的成功。然而，工作坊的最初目标只部分实现了，因为不确定工作坊中教授的方法在后续问题中得到了多少应用。本文讨论了此类工作坊作为向家庭提供实际帮助和支持的一种方式的价值。
