The four-year study, by the University of York's social policy research unit, has found that what an outcome means for a disabled child could sometimes be very different to what an outcome would mean for a non-disabled child.
Commissioned by the Department of Health, the Outcomes for Disabled Children and Their Parents study says: "There is a need to widen the definitions and indicators of keyconcepts in these frameworks totake into account the viewsand capabilities of disabled children."
Bryony Beresford, senior research fellow at the unit, said the outcomes are not always right for disabled children: "It's more about broadening out and realising that some of the definitions are not appropriate," she said.
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