The integration (mainstreaming) of spina bifida children into ordinary schools
| Autor: | Lonton Ap |
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| Rok vydání: | 1981 |
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Gerontology
Educational measurement Social adjustment Adolescent Spina bifida business.industry MEDLINE Wechsler Scales Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Mainstreaming Spina Bifida Occulta medicine.disease Wheelchair Sex Factors Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health medicine Humans Surgery Family School Admission Criteria Educational Measurement business Child Social Adjustment Low intelligence |
| Zdroj: | Zeitschrift fur Kinderchirurgie : organ der Deutschen, der Schweizerischen und der Osterreichischen Gesellschaft fur Kinderchirurgie = Surgery in infancy and childhood. 34(4) |
| ISSN: | 0174-3082 |
| Popis: | In 1976, an aggressive policy of integrating spina bifida children into ordinary schools was mounted in Sheffield. Analysis of the school placement pattern of 1235 patients, aged 2-29 years, showed an increase from 25% to 64% integrated for children born in 1968 and 1976, respectively. However, about a half of this 39% increase was attributable to selective non-treatment. The major deterrents to integration were found to be low intelligence and wheelchair dependency. Only 4% of children with IQs below 70 were in ordinary schools. 91% of children with IQs below 45 were in mentally handicapped schools. 88% of children with IQs between 46 and 70 were in physically handicapped schools. 18% of children with wheelchairs only were integrated, and this reduced to 8% if they also had valves and were incontinent. On the other hand, neither incontinence nor valve dependency on their own were major problems with respect to ordinary schooling. |
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