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The Handicapped Child

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Most handicapped children are afflicted early in life and long before they have acquired many skills. They may never have possessed any normal abilities and such abilities as they do have are distorted and abnormal. They have to be trained to develop even basic skills such as walking in the case of a cerebral palsy baby. This is habilitation, not rehabilitation.

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  1. The Middlesex Hospital, London, UK

    Stephen Mattingly TD, MB, FRCP, D. Phys. Med (Consultant Rheumatologist) (Consultant Rheumatologist)

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Holt, K.S. (1977). The Handicapped Child. In: Mattingly, S. (eds) Rehabilitation Today. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7437-4_14

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