The Administrative Population Report on Children with Developmental Delays in Taiwan, 2003 through 2007

Autor/inn/en	Lin, Jin-Ding; Yen, Chia-Feng; Wu, Jia-Ling; Kang, Shih-Wan
Titel	The Administrative Population Report on Children with Developmental Delays in Taiwan, 2003 through 2007
Quelle	In: Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 30 (2009) 2, S.353-358 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0891-4222
DOI	10.1016/j.ridd.2008.06.004
Schlagwörter	Medical Services; Early Intervention; Foreign Countries; Developmental Delays; Trend Analysis; Children; Young Children; Age Differences; Incidence; Disability Identification; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arzt; Ausland; Entwicklungsverzögerung; Trendanalyse; Child; Kind; Kinder; Frühe Kindheit; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Vorkommen
Abstract	This paper was a population study with developmental delays and it included an examination of the trends the overtime change trend and reported channels of this group of people in Taiwan. We analyzed data for the present study mainly from the Department of Statistics, Ministry of the Interiors, Taipei, Taiwan: "Number of early intervention for children with developmental delays in Taiwan" from 2003 through 2007. The reported number of children with developmental delays slightly increased from 13,231 to 14,250 (increase rate = 7.7%) from the year of 2003 through 2007 in Taiwan. More than one-half of children with developmental delays were reported during the age 3-5 years. Aged 0-2 group has the highest increasing reported numbers in the previous 5 years which changed dramatically increased from 4139 (31.3%) in 2003 to 6201 (43.5%) in 2007 (increase rate = 49.8%). The medical care setting was the main reported channel of the children with developmental delays and the results also showed that the reported prevalence of the aged 0-2 developmentally delayed children was 57.4-102.2 per 10,000 children; aged 3-5 was 79.0-105.1 per 10,000 children from the year 2003-2007 in Taiwan. The present concluded that early intervention based on the precise affected population would provide important supports for families of children with developmental delays. Therefore, the health care system should be strengthened to increase the proportion of children identified at the earlier age and to decrease the variability in the age at identification for most of the conditions of children with developmental delays. (Contains 2 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10