Comparison of families of children with mental retardation and families of children without mental retardation.
By: Hodapp, Robert M.
Contributor(s): Zigler, Edward.
Series: Mental Retardation 31 (2) 1993: 75-77. 1993Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume Subject(s): COMPARATIVE STUDIES | FAMILY SUPPORT | STRESSSummary: Families of children with intellectual handicaps face significant financial and emotional hardship. This is partly because of society's focussing on the individual with the handicap and partly to a service system that financially values only out of home, medically oriented curative and rehabilitative services.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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A commentary on the article by Birnbaum abd Cohen in the same journal.
Families of children with intellectual handicaps face significant financial and emotional hardship. This is partly because of society's focussing on the individual with the handicap and partly to a service system that financially values only out of home, medically oriented curative and rehabilitative services.
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