ABSTRACT
Figure 2.1 showed clearly that the motor impaired child may also have specific learning difficulties. However, not all children with a physical difficulty are affected, only those whose condition can be associated with a degree of brain damage. Those who have spina bifida and hydrocephalus, cerebral palsy or damage to the brain due to trauma or infection (Chapter 3) are the most likely to have trouble learning but each child’s problems will be specific and we cannot make any generalizations. Some severely impaired children are highly intelligent and once given access to some form of communication are able to share that ability (Nolan, 1987), whereas the cerebral palsy child with only a slight limp and epilepsy may have enormous difficulty learning to read and spell.
