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Article: Pediatric rehabilitation: special patients, special needs.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Rehabilitation
- Article date:
- July 1, 1990
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Pediatric Rehabilitation: Special Patients, Special Needs
Children who have spinal cord injuries, amputations, chronic diseases or congenital birth defects such as spina bifida require special treatment. Pediatric rehabilitation differs greatly from adult rehabilitation because the child is constantly growing intellectually, physically and emotionally. Periodic assessment must be done in order to determine the childhs level of development in all areas and what the child is able to understand about the disability, treatment and prognosis.
The family, of course, is the primary mediator of the child's development. A parent's constant grief or guilt because ...