The need to study a wide range of attributes and functions when assessing a disabled child has long been recognised. The concept of the multidisciplinary investigation of children with behaviour disorders led to the opening of child guidance clinics first in the United States and then in this country in the 1920s. Paediatricians in the 1940s and 1950s were able to pay more attention to the comp...

W hile working in the classroom with orthopedically handicapped and multihandicapped pre-school children, the need arose for a piece of equipment that would permit a child to work with tactile stimulation activities as independently as possible while also freeing the teacher and aide to move about and work with several children simultaneously instead of being restricted to a one-to-one si tuation.

A mentally handicapped child can add something positive and cohesive to many family units. Dr. Joan Bicknell, a child psychiatrist, wants us and the adoption societies to rethink our attitude towards these children and the parents who keep them at home. A young couple wanted to have a family. They Were happily married, with a stable financial background and no history of serious illness in eith...

th ? AR Sir,?There has grown up a body of law in ls country with regard to the care and education ^ Mentally handicapped children based upon the ^sumption that there are three categories of udren: normal, educationally subnormal, and mentally defective. All who have had anything to do with the cateones regarded as subnormal will know from Perience that the position is far from satisfactory. th'...

COMMITTEE ON THE HANDICAPPED CHILD I N RESPONSE to many requests from mdividuals and agencies, the following statement on the present status of treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU) has been prepared. The Committee on Fetus and Newborn has reviewed the present status of neonatal screening for inborn errors of metabolism (e.g., PKIJ and related problems) and is reporting separately. There is consid...

I want, very briefly, to outline what we have been trying to do at the National Association for Mental Health to solve the problems that have arisen in Child Guidance largely as a result of the National Health Service Act. In 1944, when the Education A-ct went through, we felt that a very large part of our work had been done : Child Guidance was on the map ; it was an obligation of the Local Ed...