Parents Want to Know

help parents who decide?or are compelled by lack of other provision?to look after their children at home. Dr. Jack Tizard and Dr. Jacqueline Grad have set out some of the problems faced by parents of retarded children, saying that 'for substantial numbers effective social intervention might have made hospital care unnecessary'. is perhaps some measure of the severe physical and emotional problems facing parents of very handicapped children that 50 of the children waiting for admission to the Fountain Hospital over a two-year period died before they could be admitted. (The Fountain Hospital is now incorporated in Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton, Surrey.) Parents of retarded children can be greatly helped by the provision of places in training centres, special care units, day hospitals and, in the case of younger child-