Disabled Children and Developing Countries: (136 Clinics in Developmental Medicine (Mac Keith Press))

This book describes the situation of children with a range of disabilities living in developing countries. It evaluates currently available models of therapy, treatment and education, and how some of these have been applied where resources are scarce. Community-based solutions reached in developing countries, and the social and political context governing further progress, have implications in turn for professionals in developing countries. The book aims to provide a critical basis of knowledge from which services for disabled children and their families may be planned appropriately. The international group of authors do not focus on any particular disability, nor on any one part of the world, but provide a broad coverage of issues concerning children and disability in developing countries.

Table of Contents:
1. Prevalence and priorities; 2. Child disability services and interventions; 3. Evaluation of intervention; 4. Early intervention in developing countries; 5. Surgery and disabled children; 6. Identification and assessment; 7. Disabled children and education; 8. Disability programmes in the community; 9. Growing up disabled; 10. The disabling effects of war; 11. Rights not charity; 12. Conclusions.

Review :
'... this highly informative and well-written book provides a rich foundation of ideas for the development of services. I would certainly recommend the book to professionals working with disabled children and hope it will be widely available to colleagues practising in developing countries.' Jane McCarthy, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry ' ... informative and valuable ... the experienced clinician and graduate student will find that this book broadens their knowledge base and provides them with a global view of children with disabilities.' Elise Bloch, Occupational Therapy in Health Care 'The editors of this book should be commended fore realistically describing the challenge of achieving equal rights for children with special needs, wherever they live.' Joyce W. Sparling, Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics 'The book will enable readers working in both developed and developing regions to review their priorities and plan effective programs and stimulate them to include people with disabilities in service planning and provision.' Stephen B. Sulkes, Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal ' ... a useful review of and orientation to this expanding field'. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology ' ... readers will likely be inspired and informed by the numerous accounts of successful and unsuccessful projects and case studies in India, Africa, Mexico, and elsewhere ... The information contained in this volume raises our international consciousness with respect to childrenwith disabilities as the authors emphasize, once again, how closely all on the planet are linked to one another.' Michael J. Guralnick, American Journal of Mental Retardation