Digital Pictures to Enhance Storytelling amongst Special Needs Children

Digital storytelling for social and international development: from special education to vulnerable children

(150 characters) This paper presents the Digital Storytelling for Development model (DSD). DSD is a process model for supporting the implementation of digital storytelling activities within the broader framework of social and international development projects. DSD blends storytelling, visual arts and digital media to make a difference for vulnerable children, including children with special ne...

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...

Child Care for Children with Special Needs

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...

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 ...