Society's attitude toward physical and mental disabilities has varied considerably over the centuries and among cultures. Survival of the fittest and man's obsession with "normalcy" have usually predominated. Only those handicapped people who were the most hardy, wise, forceful, clever, or who had a combination of such attributes were able to break through the flimsy but tightly woven "rejectio...

BACKGROUND Dysphagia and feeding intolerance are common in neurologically handicapped children. The aim is to determine the etiologies of feeding intolerance in neurologically handicapped children who are intolerant of tube feedings. METHODS Eighteen neurologically handicapped children, followed in the Tube Feeding Clinic at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin who were intolerant of gastrost...

Sterilization of mentally handicapped individuals occurs today despite little consensus in the medical community as to when sterilization is appropriate (Zurawin & Paransky, 2003). In addition, each state has different laws regarding sterilization of the mentally handicapped. Thus, nurses and nurse practitioners must navigate the complex social issues and legal uncertainties related to steriliz...

We are well aware that 1981 has been declared as International year for the handicapped. All those countries including India, who are signatories to this resolution owe a special responsibility towards providing some fundamental facilities for the vast numbers and varieties of the handicapped. Though India has, since ancient times, extended humanitarian consideration to the handicapped, yet for...

The passage of Public Law 94-142, to alleviate the educational isolation of handicapped children, has resulted in some integration of handicapped children into community activities. Unfortunately, this integration is usually characterized by groups of handicapped people enjoying an activity together rather than with nonhandicapped persons. Developing activities that can realistically effect int...

In a cross sectional study the mental health of parents of physically and mentally handicapped preschool children was compared with that of parents of healthy preschool children. The social networks of the parents with handicapped children were also studied to determine factors that might influence psychiatric morbidity. The mothers of the handicapped children showed significantly more psychiat...

AUTHOR Lazar, Alfred L.; And Others TITLE Attitudes of Handicapped and Non-Handicapped University Students on Three Attitude Scales. INSTITUTION California State Univ., Long Beach. Dept. of Educational Psychology. SPONS AGENCY Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (DHEW/OE), Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 76 GRANT GOO-74-02794 NOTE 22p.; Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the California E...

The recently enacted Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Services, and Developmental Disabilities Amendments of 1978 (P .L. 95-602) amended the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to establish a National Institute of Handicapped Research (NIHR) . This new Institute has charged with the prime responsibility of providing the required knowledge for defining needs, and of identifying the means for improving servi...

"DEDICATED TO THOMAS WALMSLEY." This statement alone will make many generations of medical men from Belfast consider that this book must be a model of original thought lucidly expressed. The principles are indeed set out with a clarity and in a logical sequence that fully justify the dedication. Nevertheless, it is not an "easy" book in the generally accepted sense of the term, for it is never ...