Pony riding can give a new dimension to the life of a handicapped child.

Children with mental handicap and other developmental disorders are normally cared for by their families. This represents an important shift from the previous practice when psychiatrists in large hospitals for the mentally handicapped provided total care and organised medical support. The medical and educational needs of such children are now met by resources in the community. This has often me...

toys and play for the handicapped child What to say and what to do when mostly your friends love reading? Are you the one that don't have such hobby? So, it's important for you to start having that hobby. You know, reading is not the force. We're sure that reading will lead you to join in better concept of life. Reading will be a positive activity to do every time. And do you know our friends b...

A HANDICAPPED child is a child who cannot play, work or do the things other children of his age can do, or who is hindered in achieving his full physical, mental and social potentiality . . This is the definition of the 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth. President Kennedy, in his short, meteoric term of office, gave a tremendous boost to the parents of these children, and to the...

Jhe modern approach to child development lays mcreasing emphasis on the mother-child and family relationships for the development of the normal child. It would follow that it is of equal, if not ?reater, importance for the handicapped or severely disturbed child to be sustained by these primary relationships. Here there arises a problem, because