Avaliação da participação das famílias no apoio prestado pelas equipas de intervenção precoce

Abstract

According to what the family centered practices recommended by international scientific organizations, the authors’ aims to understand the participation of families in the support provided by National System for Early Childhood Intervention and facilitators and barriers to such participation. In this paper, the authors describe the procedures and the results of the successive phases of construction, translation and adaptation of the instruments that will allow the reliability and validity of final results. The most significant changes resulted from the replacement and modification of the vocabulary used to ensure that the addressed  issues are understood  by the respondents.