The Child with a Disability

Abstract

Practical text describing childhood disabilities. Includes chapters on: the nature of disability; intelligence, development and assessment; a review of normal development; practical aspects of assessment; hearing tests; assessment of visual function; coping with disability; services for disabled children; behaviour problems and their management; learning difficulties; communication disorders; hearing loss; visual impairment; cerebral palsy; neural tube defects and other motor disorders; educational underachievement; and fits, faints and funny turns.