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Who does well – why?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1999

Abstract

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As a graduate psychology student in the early 1960s, I came to the University of Iowa Hospital School with much energy, considerable naivety, and many questions. Do children with cerebral palsy (CP) have difficulties with psychological adjustment, what do their families need, can we really have an effect on their quality of life, do we know anything that really makes a difference in the long term? What do we mean by ‘they have to accept their disability’, what standard is the baseline from which to best measure improvement, and what is ‘normal’ adjustment if a child has a physical disability? Over the last three decades, has practice changed for the better for the child with CP? Have our perspectives changed on any of these questions?

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Editorial
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© 1999 Mac Keith Press