Home Observation for the Measurement of Environment

Abstract

Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) is a systematic
assessment of the caring environment in which the child is reared. The primary
goal of the instrument is to measure, within a naturalistic context, the quality and
quantity of stimulation and support available to a child in the home environment.
Its focus is on the experience of the child in the home environment; the child as
an active recipient of inputs from objects, events and transactions occurring in
connection with the family surroundings. It is intended to be used by practitioners
as well as researchers, and ideally it should be combined with information from
individual assessments of the child in a context of a multimodal assessment
procedure [6].