THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED CHILD
Chapter 21 THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED CHILD The Chapter at a Glance Adverse effect of disability. The crippled child. The visually handicapped child. The auditory defective child. The speech defective child. Need for adequate educational facilities. The physically handicapped children may manifest the symptoms of withdrawal from the realities of life and the neurotic manifestations ....... the personality may be modified along definitely anti-social lines. Incorrigibility, delinquency, and even criminality may be the end-results of interference with the normal development of the ego instinct of the personality." A successful handling of the physically handicapped child necessitates knowledge of the defect, the dynamics of its effect on the child, the consequent maladjustment, if any, and the child's reaction to it. Scientific interest in the physically handicapped child is of very recent origin. It is only a few years bac