SPECIAL NEEDS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN-PARENTAL VIEW

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...

SpECIAL NEEDS FOR SpECIAL pOpULATIONS

susceptibility to diabetes may have begun in the womb, while others may develop diabetes as a result of another disease or condition. Prevention and treatment strategies need to take into account the diverse needs of people with or at risk for diabetes. (Photo credits: Top row, left im age: ©iStockphoto.com/Yuri_Arcurs. Top row, middle image: Ian Hooton / Photo Researchers, Inc. Bottom row, lef...

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 ...