SET and the handicapped In your Autumn 1966 issue, you published a letter from Dr. Bailey, of Tone Vale Hospital, Somerset, on the adverse effect of the selective employment tax on the employment of disabled workers. This matter has been discussed by the Social Services Committee of the National Association for Mental Health, and various efforts were made to discover, from different areas, whet...

Working Party commissioned by K | British Council Jor Rehabilitation oj the Disabled. Obtainable jrom the t ?11" Tavistock House, Tavistock Square, W.C.I, 1963, 155. ^ This Report constitutes a survey, begun in 1959, of the whole field of work for capped school-leavers?the blind and the deaf, the physically disabled and epileptic ,, educationally subnormal and the maladjusted?with the object of...

In 1962 a voluntary group, the Technical Assistance and Research Group for Physical Rehabilitation (TARGPR), was organized in Fredericton, New Brunswick. This group was formed to provide the opportunity for persons skilled in applied science and technology to contribute to the welfare of the physically handicapped. The purpose of the group was: "to assist the medical profession in the diagnosis...

help parents who decide?or are compelled by lack of other provision?to look after their children at home. Dr. Jack Tizard and Dr. Jacqueline Grad have set out some of the problems faced by parents of retarded children, saying that 'for substantial numbers effective social intervention might have made hospital care unnecessary'. is perhaps some measure of the severe physical and emotional proble...

Measles is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in children receiving treatment for leukaemia. A review was made of all the documented cases of measles in children in first remission from acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at four major treatment centres in 1974-84. Over the 11 years reviewed 1043 children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia were referred to these centres. Fifty one (4.9%) died w...

The home environment variables with etfects ôt tamily-oriented Oatly ihtervention on home environment variables with birth tO 5 year Old handicapped children and their lamilies were dValuated in this research; Twenty-three tamilieS particip6ted in the study; The systematic tamily-criented interVentibh provided to the experimental group included: transdi8iplihry assessment and IEP development, a...

Two thousand, seven hundred and ninety one normal and handicapped children aged 5-15 years were examined for traumatic dental injuries. Twelve percent had traumatised teeth while three percent had soft tissue injuries. More handicapped children (18%) than normal children (11%) had injuries. This study indicates that children need to be educated on preventive measures regarding traumatic dental ...

An attempt has been made to study the psychological pattern in terms of six criteria in the visually handicapped subjects. A total of 75 subjects were administered Cornell Medical Index health questionnaire. Twenty-five out of these had normal vision, another third had curable ocular disease and the rest were permanently handicapped.

Two surveys of special education facilities produced at the close of 1964 were The Special School: Aims, Facilities and Amenities* and Special Education in London.f The first was prepared by the National Union of Teachers' Advisory Committee for Special Education, and stresses that: "Special schools in this country have always claimed to place high value on individual consideration, and given a...