Going down to New Orleans

Tim Hobbs will present the Unit’s work on measuring the well-being of children with special educational needs at this year's International Society for Quality of Life Research annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Work taking place in Birmingham, supported by the Nuffield Foundation, will culminate in a validated tool for measuring the subjective well-being of children unable to participate in typical attempts to measure the outcomes of children in school.
 
The process of development and key findings will be shared with researchers via a poster presentation at the Society’s 16th Annual Meeting between the 28th and 31st of October 2009. Qualitative insights alongside the psychometric properties of the measure will be shared, followed by a discussion about how data from such an instrument may be used to monitor trends in well-being (at the individual and aggregate level) and help design services to improve outcome.
 
Further information about the conference may be found at http://www.isoqol.org/