Physically handicapped school leavers.

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...

The Handicapped School-Leaver

Working Party commissioned by K | British Council Jor Rehabilitation oj the Disabled. Obtainable jrom the t ?11" Tavistock House, Tavistock Square, W.C.I, 1963, 155. ^ This Report constitutes a survey, begun in 1959, of the whole field of work for capped school-leavers?the blind and the deaf, the physically disabled and epileptic ,, educationally subnormal and the maladjusted?with the object of...

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...

The handicapped school leaver.

The Perceptions of School Leavers Towards

Ron Oliver is a Senior Lecture( in the Deparlnent of Library and lnfomatton Sctence at Edith Cowan Univercity, He teaches in the prc.setvice teacher education program at the Univercity. He cootdtnates the secondary teachet computet education Wogram. He is actively tnvolved in school-based research and has a paqiculat nterest in the outcones of lT programs n schools. He $ curcntly nvalved in a p...