Evaluation of Parents' Satisfaction with Early Intervention Services within and among European Countries: Construction and Application of a New Parent Satisfaction Scale

Infants and Young Children

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 61-70

  Lanners, Romain ^a   Mombaerts, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b Early Intervention Service   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Early childhood intervention; Evaluation; Factorial analysis; Measurement of parent satisfaction; Parent centered intervention; Satisfaction scale; Scale validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034383871     PISSN: 08963746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001163-200012030-00009     Document Type: Review

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