Severely handicapped children are eligible for supplemental services, including therapeutic equipment not covered under state Medicaid, therapeutic summer camp (upon professional recommendation) and education beyond high school depending on annual funding allocations.
We do not ask the teacher of mentally retarded children or the learning disabilities specialist to curtail badly needed individual instruction with
severely handicapped children so that she can «bring out the hidden disabilities in all children.»
• Extremes of great involvement on the one hand to total withdrawal on the other have been observed, with possibly less involvement with daughters and with more
severely handicapped children, and greater involvement with first - born handicapped children (for review, see Lamb & Laumann - Billings, 1997).
And if you have an unshakable belief that even
severely handicapped children have an equal claim on our time and money, then you won't like the utilitarian's favoring of healthy, conscious, rational persons.
Not exact matches
Christians would disagree about the abortion of a
child who is expected to be
severely handicapped.
Working as a volunteer, introduced me to another segment of our society, where people were dependant on charity to ensure a reasonable amount of medical care for their
severely sick and / or
handicapped child.
I used to work with the
severely mentally
handicapped, and I can tell you that a good number of the female clients I worked with were medically sterilized on the authority of their legal guardians (usually their parents) so that they could not have
children who might also have chromosomal abnormalities and mental disabilities.
This is illustrated by the 2012 case of T. (A.)(Next Friend of) v. Mah, in which a
child was born
severely handicapped due to the medical negligence of the doctor.
So, the mother kidnapped the
children, one of which is
severely handicapped, and has not been heard from since.