20^th World Nursing Education Conference

Early child development is a concerned problem in health care. However, the Early Intervention Policy were hard to execute in Taiwan. The purpose of this study was to explore therationality of argumentation which the different parents argue the policy of Early Intervention Policy for Children with Developmental Delays or Disabilities in Taiwan.

The document analysis and in-depth interview are adopted. In addition, policy argument andcontent analysis are regarded as the method of analyzing and processing data. The interview withsix parents used Early Intervention Policy was based on the ethics mode of policy argumentation by Dunn. The policy process contains six steps: policy information, claim, warrant, backing, object and rebuttal.

The findings of this study showed that the management mode of the expert first causes thegap of the mutual communication. However, the main experts only were the medical team, not the parents. It was worth to note that when the parents did not follow the experts’ instructions, they had been criticized as not know about the developmental delays or disabilities as well. The controversy

of the ambivalent signs and the insufficiency of the integrated resource were ignored and therefore the parents were busier to assume more parental responsibility.

The policy is far away from the principle of participation. This the main reason causes the dilemma of the Early Intervention Policy for Children with Developmental Delays or Disabilities in Taiwan. Some suggestions are proposed to the nursing practice, education and policy as well.