HANDICAP ACCEPTANCE OF CRIPPLED YOUTH

Biopsychosocial pain model crippled?

A Positive View of Peer Acceptance in Aggressive Youth Risk for Future Peer Acceptance

This study examines the relations between aggressive children’s perceived levels of peer acceptance at Time 1 and actual levels of social preference and aggression 30 months later. Participants were 49 children nominated for one of two interventions by teachers for their aggressive behaviors in second or third grade at Time 1. This study used longitudinal data to determine whether a positive vi...

Evaluation of Hearing Handicap

The American Academy of Otolaryngology and American Council of Otolaryngology (AAOACO) define hearing handicap as a disability to understand sentences under everyday vocal and listening conditions, and describe procedures for its estimation from pure-tone threshold hearing levels . Research now reveals that the AAO-ACO procedures underestimate measured hearing handicap by the equivalent of aver...

The Handicap of High Intelligence

more and more first-class entrants. We must have more teachers, more nurses, more scientists, and so on, and they must all be of the first rank. One is sometimes tempted to wonder whether there really are enough highly intelligent people to go round. We certainly cannot afford to waste any of them, and we ought perhaps to spend rather more time considering them and their needs than we do. They ...

Combating Social Handicap

Report on a group of parents with handicapped children who came together to organise activities to overcome their childrens' lack of social education.