Children with special needs: use of health services, behavior and ethnicity

A study of 106 children from varied ethnic backgrounds, 42 European, 45 Asian and 19 Afro-Caribbean, reveals that health services were used primarily for epilepsy, hearing and vision, cardiovascular, mobility, and ear nose and throat problems. Ethnicity did not have an effect on the pattern of contact with health professionals and, although two thirds of the children had special needs such as hyperactivity, only 18% received treatment from psychological experts.