ABSTRACT
The School Health Service and Handicapped Pupils Regulations (1953) defines as one of the categories of children who require ‘special educational treatment’, ‘physically handicapped pupils, that is to say, pupils not suffering solely from a defect of sight or hearing who by reason of disease or crippling defect cannot without detriment to their health or educational development, be satisfactorily educated under the normal regime of ordinary schools.’ Preventive medical and orthopaedic treatment changes the types over the years. Pupils suffering from muscular dystrophy gradually regress physically, and therefore, in time, academically. The provision in the classroom of a very wide choice of graded books and apparatus in the basic subjects is a necessity. All aspects of a human being are at work in this and it should be a fairly harmonious process with opportunity for physical, emotional, intellectual, and social growth; a continuous process from birth to maturity.
