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Excerpt from: The Care, Cure, And Education Of The Crippled Child In the course of this book we shall first step back and examine those darker ages when physical imperfection was a horrible stigma. We shall examine in a cursory manner those physical conditions which cause children to be handicapped. We shall then follow the little cripple as he is carried to the modem clinic, subjected to modern miracles of surgery, brought to the cheerful convalescent home, where he perhaps stands erect for the first time in his life, and where he is brought from the darkness of ignorance and introduced to the delights of education; and we shall finally gaze upon him and his fellows as they step forth into life and find themselves fully able to cope with their problems as if they had never been prostrate.... | Read Full Text |
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Title: | The Care, Cure, And Education Of The Crippled Child | |
Creator: | Henry Edward Abt (author) | |
Date: | 1924 | |
Format: | Book | |
Publisher: | International Society for Crippled Children | |
Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
Location: | pp.1-84 | |
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