AUTHOR Lazar, Alfred L.; And Others TITLE Attitudes of Handicapped and Non-Handicapped University Students on Three Attitude Scales. INSTITUTION California State Univ., Long Beach. Dept. of Educational Psychology. SPONS AGENCY Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (DHEW/OE), Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 76 GRANT GOO-74-02794 NOTE 22p.; Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the California E...

You have done me the honour of inviting me to speak to you tonight upon the subject of "The Day-toDay Management of the Handicapped Child in its own home." I have much pleasure in doing so because so great a part of the daily medical work of myself and my colleagues and the nursing staff in our hospital is concerned with problems common to yours in the care of these children. As many of you are...

Trisomy 13 is a clinically severe entity; 85% of the patients do not survive beyond one year, and most children die before completing six months of age. We report a female child, 28 months old, white, the fourth child of a non-consanguineous couple, who presented trisomy 13. The child was born at term, from a vaginal delivery, weighing 2600 g. At birth, she was cyanotic, icteric, spastic, and c...

The recently enacted Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Services, and Developmental Disabilities Amendments of 1978 (P .L. 95-602) amended the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to establish a National Institute of Handicapped Research (NIHR) . This new Institute has charged with the prime responsibility of providing the required knowledge for defining needs, and of identifying the means for improving servi...

"DEDICATED TO THOMAS WALMSLEY." This statement alone will make many generations of medical men from Belfast consider that this book must be a model of original thought lucidly expressed. The principles are indeed set out with a clarity and in a logical sequence that fully justify the dedication. Nevertheless, it is not an "easy" book in the generally accepted sense of the term, for it is never ...

?for This is a small booklet prepared by the Brother and Sister group of the Association ?-the Help of Retarded Children in New York. It is written to help children who have retarded brother or sister, and summarises such problems as how to accept the situate11' It also gives practical suggestions, such as activities the family can do together. The ide of such a booklet and the points discussed...

Data from 55 preterm SGA infants and 55 preterm AGA infants matched for gestational age and sex were reviewed retrospectively. An increased incidence of perinatal hypoxia (30 vs. 18), gastrointestinal problems, minor infections (27 vs. 9), hematological problems and increased mortality (21.8% vs. 7.2%) was observed in the SGA infants. The incidence of HMD was higher in the AGA group (not signif...

ED 032 669 EC 004 238 Sensory Aids for the Blind. National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council. Washington, D.C. Committee on Prosthetics Reseakh and Development. Spons Agency-Veterans Administration. Washington. D.C. Pub Date Mar 67 Note-57p. EDRS Price MF -S025 HC-S2.95 Descriptors-Artificial Speech. Auditory Perception. Braille. Equipment Evaluation. *Exceptional Child Services. I...

as A regional social worker for the Spastics Society I am increasingly aware of the diversity of my clients' needs, their dependence for facilities on specific geographical areas and the way local authorities interpret the statutory provisions. The knowledge that spasticity is irreversible makes an immediate impact. However I try I know I cannot change the status quo and this is the premise on ...

In his last budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced as part of his plans the rehabilitation of derelict sites. That reminded me that the term 'rehabilitation' which we have come to use in medicine, is probably. quite inappropriate, becaume it really hints at derelict or down-and-out human beings. It is not really a description appropriate to the resettlement of the sick or injured man...