Muenster Parental Programme--Feedback from Parents: How do parents evaluate an early intervention programme for improving the communication with their baby or toddler with hearing impairment?

• Published in: HNO Vol. 64; no. 2; pp. 101 - 110
• Main Authors: Glanemann, R, Reichmuth, K, am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen, A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: German
• Published: Germany 01.02.2016
• Subjects: Adult; Child; Child, Preschool; Communication; Disabled Children - education; Disabled Children - psychology; Disabled Children - rehabilitation; Early Intervention (Education) - methods; Education of Hearing Disabled - methods; Female; Germany; Humans; Male; Parent-Child Relations; Parenting - psychology; Parents - education; Patient Satisfaction; Persons With Hearing Impairments - psychology; Persons With Hearing Impairments - rehabilitation; Program Evaluation; Early intervention; Neonatal screening; Parents; Questionnaires; Hearing loss
• ISSN: 1433-0458
• DOI: 10.1007/s00106-015-0096-4

With the implementation of the UNHS, early educational services' existing concepts of early intervention have to be adapted to the situation and needs of families with a preverbal child who is deaf or hard of hearing. The Muenster Parental Programme (MPP), a module in early family-centered intervention, fulfils this requirement. We report feedback from participating parents regarding processes and outcomes of the MPP. The self-developed questionnaire was checked for its suitability as feedback instrument for measuring parental satisfaction with the MPP. 29 parents who participated in the MPP assessed the programme by using the standardised FBB and the self-developed questionnaire FB-MEP, which is specific to the MPP. Using the FBB, 96% of parents judged the MPP to be good or very good. With the FB-MEP, parents rated setting, contents and didactics as highly as they did using the FBB (r = 0.7, p < 0.01). In particular, parents judged both the contact and exchange with other affected parents, and the specific individual support for communicating with their child (including video feedback) as especially helpful. The results reflect parents' high level of satisfaction with the setting, content, didactics and individual benefit gained by their child and themselves from the MPP. The parents are aware of the efficacy of the MPP, which was shown in the controlled intervention study. The self-developed questionnaire FB-MEP was shown to be a suitable instrument for quality assurance measurements of the MPP.