ABSTRACT
This book explores the life experiences of children who are born with a variety of medical or physical disorders. It provides an integration of scientific and personal perspectives on such conditions. In accounting for both outcomes, it suggests how the social responses of others (family, friends, and professionals) may foster resilience as well as risk. It also describes the results of an intervention that facilitates the more positive experiences of such children early in life.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|16 pages
Ways of Thinking about Children's Medical and Physical Disorders
chapter 2|2 pages
The Experiences of Children with Mobility Constraints
chapter 5|15 pages
Parents and Children as Collaborators in Managing Mobility Constraints
chapter 6|12 pages
I Get by with a Little Help from My Friends
chapter 3|50 pages
The Child in a World Apart
The Experiences of Children Who Appear to Be Socially Unresponsive
chapter 7|16 pages
Ways of Understanding the Child in a World Apart
chapter 8|14 pages
Parental Reactions to the Child in a World Apart
chapter 9|18 pages
Social Relationships Experienced by Children in a World Apart
chapter 4|2 pages
The Socially Stigmatized Child
The Experiences of Children with Appearance Anomalies
