The Infant Toddler Activity Card Sort: A Caregiver Report Measure of Children’s Occupational Engagement in Family Activities and Routines

Catherine R. Hoyt, Jianna D. Fernandez, Taniya E. Varughese, Emma Grandgeorge, Hannah E. Manis, Kelly E. O’Connor, Regina A. Abel, Allison A. King

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Abstract

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).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)36-41
Number of pages6
JournalOTJR Occupation, Participation and Health
Volume40
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2020

Keywords

  • family-centered practice
  • measurement
  • pediatrics

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