Handicapped Children and Their Families

Conductive education for physically handicapped children: parental expectations and experience.

Conductive education, an educational approach devised by Andras Petö in Hungary after the second world war, has attracted considerable media attention. Eight Northern Ireland families who recently had treatment for their disabled child at the Petö Institute in Budapest were identified. Six families returned postal questionnaires designed to look at parental experience of conductive education. A...

Liaison psychiatry in a child development clinic.

Children with mental handicap and other developmental disorders are normally cared for by their families. This represents an important shift from the previous practice when psychiatrists in large hospitals for the mentally handicapped provided total care and organised medical support. The medical and educational needs of such children are now met by resources in the community. This has often me...

Handicapped pre-school children and their families--effects on child's early emotional development.

Pediatric residents and young handicapped children: curriculum evaluation.

The systematic evaluation of a curriculum designed to improve the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and clinical judgment of pediatric residents with regard to young handicapped children and their families is described. Residents were assigned to experimental and control groups, and changes were analyzed across several dimensions. The results revealed a number of significant changes due to the impl...

The Mentally Handicapped and Their Families

This Survey of families with a severely subnormal member at home or in hospital, was begun in 1954 and completed in 1959. The findings are based on information given by 280 mothers and other relatives in the London area. There are numerous tables which the statistically minded will study with attention, but it is the overall picture of the families described, the extent of the difficulties they...