Children with special needs: the Warnock Report.

Children with special needs: the Warnock Report.

It was encouraging to see a leading article in the BMJ on the report of the Committee of Inquiry into the education of the handicapped.' It could be taken as a sign of future co-operation between all those professionally concerned with children with special needs. Certainly the report had much to say to doctors, as well as to teachers, social workers, and the nursing profession. Moreover, the g...

Children with special educational needs.

Sir, It was good to see Dr Ni Brolchain's interesting study of children with special educational needs (February Journal, p.56). They form a small but important subgroup of a practice child population. I suspect these children and their families may well have higher consultation rates than a control group without special educational needs. I trained for general practice (including nine months i...

Scale Validation of the FFIS for Mothers with Children with Special Needs

Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the features of the Family-Focused Intervention Scale (FFIS) for mothers of children with special needs. Materials & Methods: Descriptive-survey and validation research methods’ were applied for the survey. Participants were drawn from a sample of 200 mothers of/with children with special needs in were selected from the special schoo...

Bruising in preschool children with special needs

The authors are to be congratulated for the systematic review ‘‘Are there patterns of bruising in childhood which are diagnostic or suggestive of abuse?’’. It is an extremely valuable piece of work, providing data for paediatricians working in the field of child protection. Results show that non-abusive bruises are generally small, sustained over bony prominences, and found on the front of the ...

Children with special health care needs.