with mentally handicapped children in his film, 'St. Christopher', leads to an unusual spontaneity and depth of insight into the personalities of his subjects. The rapport between director and 'cast' is made all the more impressive by Adam Mill's sensitive and subtle camera work. The result is that the film is outstanding in many individual sequences. Unfortunately this makes the shortcomings i...

Preparing the books to read every day is enjoyable for many people. However, there are still many people who also don't like reading. This is a problem. But, when you can support others to start reading, it will be better. One of the books that can be recommended for new readers is community care and the mentally handicapped. This book is not kind of difficult book to read. It can be read and u...

Hon. Mrs. Iris Cawley, herself the mother of a five year old mongol boy, found herself leader of a group of housewives which began a special playgroup in Slough. Every feature of the group was carefully mapped out to help the children's mental development and to accustom them to mixing, rather than being kept apart from society. Every toy was bought, every game was planned, to help to teach co-...

longer the cure of diseases, the doctor has to make a contribution, along with other professional workers, to the detailed and complex provisions for the development of the innate, or residual, capacities. It is this change which has led to the rapidly increasing medical interest in the growth, education and social training of the mentally handicapped. The main emphasis of this book is on the t...

Twenty intermediate and 16 primary grade children were administered sociometric questionnaires to determine their social acceptance of three groups of children: normal children, educable mentally handicapped who were integrated into the academic routine of a nongraded school, and educables who remained segregated in a self-contained class. Results were felt to show that both integrated and segr...

Much of the discussion since the Arthur case has centred round the rights of handicapped infants to medical treatment. Little has centred round the question of how far one person can rightly be required to sacrifice her life for another, when she has not been consulted beforehand. This may be due to the fact that most of the discussants are men, while nearly all the carers are women. This small...