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Measuring Outcomes for Children with Brain Injury: Challenges and Solutions

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This chapter aims to examine the broad contextual issues associated with the challenges of measuring outcome meaningfully for children and their families. First, concepts of disability, rehabilitation and outcome will be outlined. Second, consideration of how the context of public policy developments and societal attitudes to hearing children’s opinions and wishes as part of their intervention are changing how services could be delivered. Third, ways of measuring outcome meaningfully using both quantitative and qualitative methods will be discussed.

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Gosling, S. (2015). Measuring Outcomes for Children with Brain Injury: Challenges and Solutions. In: Reed, J., Byard, K., Fine, H. (eds) Neuropsychological Rehabilitation of Childhood Brain Injury. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388223_7

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