ABSTRACT
The question is better phrased: what are the problems? Essentially they divide into three — the child's, the therapist's and the community's. The problems centred on the child include his primary handicapping condition — mental retardation, specific learning disorder, hearing impairment, etc. — and their associated difficulties. These may be classi fied as medical, social, emotional, motor and cognitive, including lan guage. The central concern of this book has been defining a language handicap in a bilingual setting, and this chapter on management is directed chiefly at this, though naturally considering it in its social emotional context.
