TY - JOUR
T1 - The Infant Toddler Activity Card Sort
T2 - A Caregiver Report Measure of Children’s Occupational Engagement in Family Activities and Routines
AU - Hoyt, Catherine R.
AU - Fernandez, Jianna D.
AU - Varughese, Taniya E.
AU - Grandgeorge, Emma
AU - Manis, Hannah E.
AU - O’Connor, Kelly E.
AU - Abel, Regina A.
AU - King, Allison A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Early intervention (EI) therapy services aim to address family-centered goals to facilitate young children’s development and participation in meaningful life activities. Current methods to evaluate children in EI assess discrete developmental skills but provide little information on the child’s ability to successfully incorporate that skill in everyday life. Furthermore, traditional measures have limited opportunity for parent report, despite parent engagement being a critical component for successful implementation of EI services. A measure that involves parents in the therapeutic process to track family-driven EI goals related to a child’s occupational engagement in meaningful family activities and routines is desperately needed. Using a qualitative design and conventional content analysis, we identified 41 distinct activities of infant–toddlers from a cohort of 23 caregivers. Activity items were matched with photographs and validated with experts in pediatric rehabilitation using the Delphi method. The resulting 40 activity/photograph pairs were used to develop a new measure of pediatric occupational engagement, the Infant Toddler Activity Card Sort (ITACS).
AB - Early intervention (EI) therapy services aim to address family-centered goals to facilitate young children’s development and participation in meaningful life activities. Current methods to evaluate children in EI assess discrete developmental skills but provide little information on the child’s ability to successfully incorporate that skill in everyday life. Furthermore, traditional measures have limited opportunity for parent report, despite parent engagement being a critical component for successful implementation of EI services. A measure that involves parents in the therapeutic process to track family-driven EI goals related to a child’s occupational engagement in meaningful family activities and routines is desperately needed. Using a qualitative design and conventional content analysis, we identified 41 distinct activities of infant–toddlers from a cohort of 23 caregivers. Activity items were matched with photographs and validated with experts in pediatric rehabilitation using the Delphi method. The resulting 40 activity/photograph pairs were used to develop a new measure of pediatric occupational engagement, the Infant Toddler Activity Card Sort (ITACS).
KW - family-centered practice
KW - measurement
KW - pediatrics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067807276&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1539449219852030
DO - 10.1177/1539449219852030
M3 - Article
C2 - 31161868
AN - SCOPUS:85067807276
SN - 1539-4492
VL - 40
SP - 36
EP - 41
JO - OTJR Occupation, Participation and Health
JF - OTJR Occupation, Participation and Health
IS - 1
ER -