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...

The proposed project solves possibility of using virtual sensor while monitoring psychomotor retarded patients without a permanent supervision of caregivers. The patient is secured by alarm at various health hazards such as epileptic seizures or apnea. The result of the work should be commercially viable algorithm for smart monitoring system of handicapped child or adult, especially with the di...

DOCUMENT RESUME EC 041 478 Ackerman, Marc J. Group Therapy Readiness Using Operant Techniaues with Mental Retardates. Georgia Univ., Athens. 72 11p.; Paper presented at the AERA Convention (Chicago, Illinois, April 7, 1972) MF-$0.65 HC-$3.29 *Behavior Change; *Exceptional Child Research; Group Therapy; *Mentally Handicapped; *Operant Conditioning; Social Adjustment; *Trainable Mentally Handicap...

This paper focuses on one of the most salient issues for siblings of children with disabilities--their helping or caretaking behavior. Prior research has found that siblings can experience either negative or positive mental health outcomes as a result of having a brother or sister with disabilities. When maladjustment occurs, 't is frequently attributed to the stress of excessive helping. arado...

Annotation Should handicapped children attend ordinary schools? The Warnock report' has raised many issues relevant to child health. Among these are the arguments for and against the integration of handicapped children into ordinary schools. This aspect has been given topical prominence by the affirmation of the Secretary for Education of his support for the implementation of section 10 of the ...

A concept of Community Paediatrics has been described comprising clinical care to individual children including identification, diagnosis, and care of the handicapped child, expertise in preventive paediatric techniques, and the provision of investigation and advice in connexion with social and educational proboems. Its relationship to Community Medicine, General Practice, and Consulting Paedia...

This book is the product of a working party, set up by the Church Information Nice. It sets out the ways in which needs of the mentally handicapped child and s Parents may be met, gives clear and practical advice on the religious training these children, and shows how they and their families can be incorporated in the "fistian fellowship of their community and parish. Particularly valuable is t...

A handicapped child is a handicapped family. I don't know who said it, but it is very, very true. I was eight years old when my sister, three years my senior, fell ill with osteomyelitis. It turned out to be an extremely long and very serious disease. She finally recovered but was unable to cope with the legacy of her illness, a physical handicap. Not all that catastrophic, had her previous per...

It is useful to consider, not only what the birth of a physically handicapped child does to parents, but also what it does to us as professional people. Even though we (doctors, nurses, almoners, psychologists, social workers) are trained in a field where distress and tragedy are part of our daily work, the birth of a very abnormal baby gives us a severe shock, whether we are conscious of it or...

SIR I am a member of Prospect. We came into being to support Dr Leonard Arthur. We are all parents who have, or have had severely handicapped children and think our children ought to have been allowed to sleep on in peace instead of being kept alive by all the medical techniques. We have sent a Limitation ofTreatment Bill to all MPs. Most support it but no one yet has offered to undertake it as...