The development and testing of a module on child functioning for identifying children with disabilities on surveys. I: Background

This is the first of three papers that will document the development of a survey module on child functioning developed by UNICEF in collaboration with the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG), and demonstrate – both conceptually and through test results – the strengths of that module compared with alternative tools for identifying children with disabilities in household surveys.This first paper in the series sets the background and reviews the literature leading to the development of the UNICEF/WG Ch ild Functioning Module (CFM) and presents the WG Short Set of questions (WG-SS) and the Ten Question Screening Instrument (TQSI) as precursors, outlining some of their shortcomings and how the UNICEF/WG CFM was designed to meet those challenges.

Source: Disability and Health Journal - July 17, 2018 Category: Disability Authors: Mitchell Loeb, Daniel Mont, Claudia Cappa, Elena De Palma, Jennifer Madans, Roberta Crialesi Source Type: research