Care of physically handicapped young adults

Health care of physically handicapped young adults.

Little is known about the health needs of physically handicapped young adults after they become too old for the paediatric service. To assess these needs 104 young people with physical handicaps were given a medical examination and interviewed. They had diverse physical handicaps, many of which were rare (41 subjects); 45 had cerebral palsy and 18 spina bifida. Mental handicap (42 subjects) and...

Physically handicapped school leavers.

Twelve years ago I wrote an annotation for this journal entitled 'The handicapped school leaver'.1 I pointed out what many knew and Warnock has so clearly stated that 'the transition from school to adult life can be difficult for many young people. For those with special educational needs it is likely to be a period of particular stress'.2 I lamented the loss of an extra year in education which...

Abuse of mentally handicapped adults.

[Possibilities of social integration of the physically handicapped (1)].

The value of sport for the severely physically handicapped

Sir Ludwig Guttmann touches only lightly upon the enormous change that has since come about in this field. True, he experienced this change and yet did not really participate in it — because it was he who brought it into being. His optimism prevented him from accepting (as we did) the gloomy outlook for paraplegics and tetraplegics; his thorough training in neuropsychiatry and neurosurgery help...