© 2002 Archives of Disease in Childhood
LEADING ARTICLE
Education
Are paediatricians failing at school?
1 SEN Co-ordinator, Lydgate Junior School, Sheffield, UK
2 Professor of Paediatrics, Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, UK, and Flinders University, South Australia
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor K D Forsyth, Department of Paediatrics, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide 5042, South Australia, Australia;
kevin.forsyth@flinders.edu.au
Paediatricians need to understand the morbidity of children with special educational needs
Keywords: paediatrician; school; special educational needs; education
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The notion that paediatricians act in the interests of the child to facilitate optimal outcomes is well entrenched within the medical culture. From this perspective paediatricians act to provide curative interventions in reversible situations, and to provide assistance and support for those children with chronic conditions where a return to full functionality is improbable.
There has however been a shift in the spectrum of child health problems seen by paediatricians in recent years. The previous sharp demarcation between readily reversible acute child health problems and the chronic conditions and disabilities of childhood have been supplemented by increasing numbers of children with special educational needs (SEN). Section 312 of the 1996 UK Education Act states that:
"Children have special educational needs if they have a learning difficulty which calls for special educational provision to be made for them"
Children with SEN are just as functionally compromised and in need of
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