ABSTRACT
A book regarding the care of children with disabilities, in the acute setting, would be incomplete without a chapter on pain and its assessment. Schecter (1989) asserted that children’s pain management is generally less effective than that of adults, and nine years later, McGrath et al. (1998) stated that children, who have a neurological or cognitive impairment, are at particular risk of having their pain underestimated and under-treated.
