Summary: | 碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 社會政策與社會工作學系 === 93 === Abstract
Early intervention for children with developmental delay includes
many trans-professional services and there might be some problems
according to some documents. It’s very important to review the
present situation of early intervention services in Taiwan after they
have been carried out for about 10 years. The research is to explore
the interactoin between professionals providing early intervention
services in Nantou County, the problems they are facing, the faoctors
influencing their collaboration, and their expectations of ideal
operation of early intervention services network.
The research is a qualitative research. 20 professionals are
selected from case management unit, medical therapy services units,
educational services units, social welfare group, administration
agencies and the parents and 1 focus group and 14 in-depth interviews
were made. Besides the description of the current interaction between
professionals, the main findings of the research include:
1.The problems of the current operation of early intervention
services network are the problems about collaboration,information,
consensus or joint services plan, trans-professional teamwork,
user’s participation, and administration plan.
2.Factors influencing the professionals in the early intervention
services network are cocluded into the individual level, the
organizational level, and the policy or regulation level. The
research findings also make context description for factors of
each level.
3.The expectations of ideal operation of early intervention
services network are concluded into four parts including the
opinions of consensus or joint service plan, trans-professional
teamwork, user’s participation, and promotion of administration
plan.
According to the research findings, the study provides four
dimentions of suggestions including the construction of sufficient
resources capacity, strengthening existing integrating mechanism, the
promotion of trans-professional communication, and the improvement of
policy. Because of some limitations, the study also proposes some
suggestions for future studies, such as to do a nation-wide research,
and the qualitative or quantitative research to make more generalized
and common conclusion for national policy.
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