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Physically handicapped children

Name(s):

Maimed children

Crippled children

Physically disabled children

Deformed children

Nature

For many children, the presence of an impairment leads to rejection or isolation from experiences that are part of normal development. This situation may be exacerbated by faulty family and community attitudes and behaviour during the critical years when children's personalities and self-images are developing.

Broader

Disabled children

Impoverished disabled persons

Physically handicapped persons

Narrower

Mute children

Deaf children

Blind children

Physical independence handicap

Aggravates

Maladjusted children ^{[in 5 loops]}

Loneliness of children

State custody of deprived children ^{[in 7 loops]}

Family rejection of physically handicapped

Segregation of handicapped children in education

Stress on families of the physically or mentally handicapped

Aggravated by

Cruelty to children

Human birth defects

Foetal alcohol syndrome

Militarization of children

Physical maltreatment of children

Vulnerability of women and children in emergencies

Strategy(ies)

Clearing land mines

Providing prostheses to mine-injured amputees

Deforming children

Rehabilitating physically disabled children

Supporting physically disabled children

Reference(s)

Freeman, Peggy MBE: The Deaf / Blind Baby: a programme for care

Curtis, W S and Donlon, E T: Observational Evaluation of Severely Multi-Handicapped Children

Singer, Peter and Kuhse, Helga: Should the Baby Live ? : the problem of handicapped infants

McCarthy, Gillian T: The Physically Handicapped Child: an interdisciplinary approach to management

Batshaw, Mark L; Perret, Yvonne M and Kasmer, Elaine: Children with Handicaps: a medical primer

Type

(D) Detailed problems

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