the mentally handicapped child is to be retained in the community, it is essential matt ls family doctor should be aware of his problems which are by no means solely a ^oca' authority services", writes Dr. Brian H. Kirman in the April issue of ractitioner" devoted to "the handicapped child".

A formula for new-style management in hospitals for the mentally handicapped which is needed to liberate the staff before they can get on with the job of liberating the patients.

The relationship between counting knowledge and computational skills (i.e., skill at counting to solve addition problems) was assessed for groups of first-grade normal and mathematically disabled (MD) children. Twenty-four normal and 13 MD children were administered a series of counting tasks and solved 40 computer-administered addition problems. For the addition task, problem-solving strategie...

longer the cure of diseases, the doctor has to make a contribution, along with other professional workers, to the detailed and complex provisions for the development of the innate, or residual, capacities. It is this change which has led to the rapidly increasing medical interest in the growth, education and social training of the mentally handicapped. The main emphasis of this book is on the t...

Twenty intermediate and 16 primary grade children were administered sociometric questionnaires to determine their social acceptance of three groups of children: normal children, educable mentally handicapped who were integrated into the academic routine of a nongraded school, and educables who remained segregated in a self-contained class. Results were felt to show that both integrated and segr...

Much of the discussion since the Arthur case has centred round the rights of handicapped infants to medical treatment. Little has centred round the question of how far one person can rightly be required to sacrifice her life for another, when she has not been consulted beforehand. This may be due to the fact that most of the discussants are men, while nearly all the carers are women. This small...

this book received such publicity at the time of its publication that there must be few who do not know what it is about. Briefly, it is the result of a four years study by a research team, headed by Dr. Pauline Morris, principal lecturer in Sociology at the Borough Polytechnic, London, of the physical, psychological and sociological environment which institutions provide for the mentally handi...

Impressions of a visit to a home for mentally handicapped children in Japan.

with mentally handicapped children in his film, 'St. Christopher', leads to an unusual spontaneity and depth of insight into the personalities of his subjects. The rapport between director and 'cast' is made all the more impressive by Adam Mill's sensitive and subtle camera work. The result is that the film is outstanding in many individual sequences. Unfortunately this makes the shortcomings i...