ABSTRACT
The provision of suitable education, training or day-care is generally acknowledged to be of paramount importance for the handicapped child. Statements like those above occur over and over again in the literature about handicapped children of all kinds and that which deals with cerebral palsy is no exception. Seventy-eight children in the sample had been examined or 'ascertained' by local authorities, 52 of them by someone who was thought by the mother to have been a psychologist, and 26 by school medical officers. The mothers in the East Midlands Sample appeared to be well aware that handicapped children are as much in need of the company of companions their own age. Professor Tizard has pointed to differences between the type of residential care provided by local authorities for normal children deprived of a normal home life, children, that is, 'in care', and the type of residential care provided for mentally handicapped children.
