DEVELOPMENT OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROMOTION AND SURVEILLANCE LITERACY MODEL FOR PARENTS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD WITH SUSPECTED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DELAY, SUPHUNBURI PROVINCE.

Abstract

Approximately 15-20 percent of early childhood worldwide had abnormal development that surveillance and effective measures need to be implemented. This research was aimed to develop a child development promotion and surveillance literacy model for parents of early childhood with suspected language development delay in Suphunburi province. This research employed the mixed method and Research & Development concept. The study was divided into 3 phases. Phase 1: Situation Analysis, the data was collected from the informants of 159 parents of Early Childhood with suspected language development delay along with the in – depth interview of 12 members of the Health Allianec Network. Phase 2: Model Development, the model was developed cooperatively by the Health Alliance Network members. Learning activities were developed with the aim to enhance the target parents’ child development promotion and surveillanc literacy. Phase 3: Model Trial and Evaluation: the model was tried with 30 parents each in the experimental and the comparison groups. The effectiveness of the model developed was done by comparing 6 child development literacy skill and child development promoting behaviors of the parents and language development of the children between the experimental and the comparison group, before and after the experimentation and at the follow period 6^th week), by computing chi-square test, independent t-test, and Repeated Measures ANCOVA.