ABSTRACT
The chaos of severely handicapped children persists because their fragmented experience prevents them from acquiring an understanding of the stimulus and their fragmented learning does not allow them to extend their plans for action. Chaotic behaviour is the external manifestation of panic, while fear is its emotional counterpart. Situations are stimulating when they call for active responses, and the stimulation continues until an appropriate response brings about a change which will either end it or transform it. Chaotic behaviour of severely mentally handicapped children is in some ways complementary to that of deaf-blind children. The information seems to be available, but due to their limited capacities, it cannot be used. The special features of the behaviour of physically handicapped children are due to their motor disturbances. Physically handicapped children thus tend to lag behind their normal peers in all respects of behaviour.
