Providing Services for Children With Developmental Difficulties, Delay or Disability - Early Diagnosis and Interventions at the Community Level.

This paper describes two programs using the recommended tiered approach - World Health Organization's (WHO) Nurturing Care Framework (NCF), viz., Early Childhood Champions (ECC) program and Child Development Aide (CDA) program delivered by Ummeed Child Development Center, a non-governmental organization in Mumbai. The ECC program builds capacity in community health workers (CHWs) employed by community based organizations in urban, semi-urban and rural areas to deliver the responsive caregiving and early learning components of WHO-NCF framework to all children (universal services) and those with or at risk for disabilities (targeted and indicated services).

Adaptation of the Measure of Processes of Care for the Evaluation of Family-Centeredness of Services in India.

Objective: This study aims to (1) adapt the Measure of Processes of Care (MPOC-20) for use in India and (2) evaluate family-centered services for children with disabilities and their caregivers in an urban Indian context.

Methods: In this cross-sectional observational study, we translated the MPOC-20 into Hindi. Caregivers of children diagnosed with developmental disabilities who read and/or understood Hindi and had received services for ≥6 months were recruited.