The Children's Handicaps, Behaviour and Skills (HBS) Schedule

Bernsen, A. H.

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1980.tb07684.x

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“…The distribution of the social class of the fathers was the same as that of the total Danish population (Statistid Arbog (1977)). Gould (1978)) used by Bernsen (1980b) it was possible to divide the children into 4 groups according t o type and degree of handicap.…”

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A study concerning the time‐related and other burdens when severely handicapped children are reared at home

Dupont¹

1980

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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In order to examine the impact of a handicapped person on the family a representative sample of families with severely mentally retarded children (IQ < 50) living at home was studied. The material was based on an epidemiological survey of severe mental retardation among children in the county of Aarhus, Denmark, performed by Dr. Bemsen. Of the 171 families involved in Dr. Bernsen's survey 39 had a child between six and 14 years and these children were all living at home and attended day‐institutions or schools (with one exception). Results: on an average, the families devoted 7 hours and 11 minutes seven days per week to the care, supervision, occupation, and training of these children. In 80 % of the cases the parents’ sleep was disturbed by the child. Only one fourth of the children could be left alone, and only for about half an hour. All the others needed constant care and supervision. Eighty‐seven percent of the families had limited cultural activities, 77% had limited contact with friends, 49% had limited contact with relatives and 59% had stopped going on vacation. Sixty‐seven percent of the families stated that the circumstances had been altered, and stressed the special conditions under which the other siblings lived. In one third of the families the siblings took part in the care, in two thirds of the families the siblings supervised the handicapped child. If the family shall not suffer too much, it is necessary that they receive advisory service from skilled social workers and home advisers, technical aid equipment, financial support, as the work they carry out is a full‐time job, and most important: a possibility of regular leisure‐time and holiday arrangements.

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A study concerning the time‐related and other burdens when severely handicapped children are reared at home

Dupont¹

1980

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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Early detection of autism. Diagnostic instruments for clinicians

Gillberg¹,

Nordin²,

Ehlers³

1996

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

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Autism and Asperger syndrome are disorders with early childhood onset. They are believed to exist on the same spectrum of impairments of reciprocal communication and social interaction restriction of imagination and behaviour. A number of screening and diagnostic tools have been developed in the field, and several of these are briefly reviewed here. It is concluded that autism may be screened around age 18 months and a diagnosis reliably be made around age 30 months, whereas a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome is not usually suspected, screened or made until into the child's school age.

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Dimensional approach to infantile autism in mentally retarded adults

Lund¹,

Jensen²

1989

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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By use of latent trait models, a 7-item autism rating scale was established, based on the Medical Research Council's Schedule of Handicaps, Behaviours and Skills. Data from a community-based sample of 302 mentally retarded adults were assigning good internal validity to the autism scale, and revealing a distribution of symptoms consistent with dimensional, rather than categorical, distribution of infantile autism. A total of 23 (7.6%) of the sample were earlier diagnosed as suffering from infantile autism. Using this clinical diagnosis as a reference, the autism rating scale, with a cut-off point at greater than or equal to 2, established diagnoses with a sensitivity of 0.83 and specificity of 0.89.

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The Children's Handicaps, Behaviour and Skills (HBS) Schedule

Cited by 4 publications

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A study concerning the time‐related and other burdens when severely handicapped children are reared at home

A study concerning the time‐related and other burdens when severely handicapped children are reared at home

Early detection of autism. Diagnostic instruments for clinicians

Dimensional approach to infantile autism in mentally retarded adults

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