Elsevier

Public Health

Volume 90, Issue 3, March 1976, Pages 111-121
Public Health

The prevalence and nature of ascertained handicap in the National Child Development Study (1958 cohort)

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Amongst 16,000 children in the National Child Development Study, the prevalence of ascertained handicaps was 27·8 per 1000 at the age of 11 years in 1969, child loss from death between 4 weeks and 11 due to congenital malformations and malignancy had amounted to 4·7 per 1000. Teachers would have added a further 15·8 per 1000 who they considered would benefit from attendance at special school irrespective of available facilities. Educational handicap was by far the largest category of handicap.

While this is essentially a description of the handicapping conditions found by scrutiny of the records, it cannot be claimed that it reveals the whole story of medical and educational problems amongst 11-year-olds in England, Scotland and Wales, in 1969.

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