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Direct linkMacdonald, Sarah; Hoffman, Alisa; Hagenbach, Tracy; Rusert, Julia – Exceptional Parent, 2008
In this 12 installment Medical Home series, "Exceptional Parent" presents a case study about the American Academy of Pediatrics' Medical Home Initiative. A "Medical Home" is not a building but an approach to providing healthcare services to children with special healthcare needs. This sixth part of the Medical Home series describes the experiences…
Descriptors: Child Health, Health Services, Disabilities, Cerebral Palsy
Schleifer, Maxwell J., Ed. – Exceptional Parent, 1978
Presented is a case history centering around a family controversy over the inclusion of a cerebral palsied sister in a wedding ceremony, which illustrates some of the difficulties of adjusting to and accepting a physically handicapped child in the family. (DLS)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Case Studies, Cerebral Palsy, Family (Sociological Unit)
Schleifer, Maxwell J., Ed. – Exceptional Parent, 1977
A case study is presented of a 6-year-old cerebral palsy child who is unsuccessfully mainstreamed in a regular first grade class. (CL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cerebral Palsy, Elementary Education, Mainstreaming
Schleifer, Maxwell J. – Exceptional Parent, 1974
A case history is presented which illustrates problems of the husband and the 12-year-old daughter in a family where the mother devoted almost all her energy to her cerebral palsied son. (GW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cerebral Palsy, Exceptional Child Education, Family (Sociological Unit)
Herman, Lawrence; Herman, Barbara – Exceptional Parent, 1989
The parents of a wheelchair-bound nine-year-old child with cerebral palsy and little speech or communication ability describe the role of electronic technology in improving the child's life in the areas of mobility, communication, and education. (DB)
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Case Studies, Cerebral Palsy, Communication Aids (for Disabled)
Exceptional Parent, 1987
A case study explores the attitudes, opinions, and concerns of the parents of a cerebral palsied adolescent (as well as the views of the affected public and private school administrators) concerning the decision to allow their son to move from a private to a public high school environment. (JW)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administrator Attitudes, Adolescents, Case Studies
Dixon, Harrison A. – Exceptional Parent, 1989
A father relates his family's efforts to provide early stimulation to a son diagnosed with cerebral palsy and visual impairments. As the boy developed, he listened to audiotape recordings of music and nursery rhymes, explored household objects, watched television, played computer games, and was eventually enrolled in a mainstreamed kindergarten.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cerebral Palsy, Child Development, Family Influence
