The PARCA-R (the Parent Report of Children’s Abilities-Revised) – a screening instrument to identify cognitive and language delay in at risk Children.
The Parent Report of Children’s Abilities-Revised (PARCA-R) is a parent questionnaire designed to assess the cognitive and language skills of 2 year old children. It is currently used to identify children born preterm who are at risk for developmental delay in clinical practice and in research studies. Although cut-off points were defined to identify children with moderate to severe developmental delay, they are not adequate to identify children with mild developmental delay. In this project we will use existing data to develop age and sex adjusted standardised scores which will allow clinicians and researchers to quantify precisely a child’s developmental stage in relation to that the norm and to screen all children for developmental delay.
The project is funded by a research grant from Action Medical Research and is led by Dr Samantha Johnson at the University of Leicester. The project team includes Dr Bradley Manktelow and Dr Vasiliki Bountziouka (University of Leicester), Dr Louise Linsell(University of Oxford), Professor Peter Brocklehurst (University of Birmingham), Professor Dieter Wolke (University of Warwick) and Professor Neil Marlow (University College London).
Free downloadable instrument and scoring guidelines: www.parca-r.info