ABSTRACT
Normal toddlers indicate a preference for interacting with other normal toddlers, seeking them as partners and more often rejecting social initiations from handicapped children … parents, fearing social failures for their children … contribute to [their children’s social inhibition] by being overprotective … mothers ignored their handicapped children during free play at a much greater rate than did mothers of… normal toddlers … significantly, the five most ignored children all had facial rather than orthopaedic anomalies … 1
