Children with Crippling Conditions and Special Health Problems.

This article reports on the education of children with motor handicaps and with both acute and chronic health problems. Studies on prevalence of crippling conditions show a population which is fluid, influenced by medical research and mobile with positive and probably etiologic relationships between low socioeconomic status and prenatal and paranatal abnormalities. Throughout the U.S., services for crippled children are being expanded generally. According to the author of this article, the number of children receiving care under the state federal crippled children's program has increased 38 percent between 1950 and 1956 compared with a 19-percent general population increase; the number of children with orthopedica disabilities increased 22 percent. Most obvious decreases are among conditions caused by infection. Sources of information on the number of handicapped children needing services included the U.S. Children's Bureau.