Hare: A Study of Handicapped Children 



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attend the regular schools because of physical disability. The 

 questionnaire distributed among the schools demanded only 

 the barest layman's description of the crippled conditions of 

 the children. The reports of the physical deformities are 

 given as follows : 



CRIPPLED CHILDREN NUMBER OF CASES 



Deformed hand 16 



Deformed arm 19 



Deformed feet 34 



Deformed leg 63 



Deformed back 30 



Deformed hip 5 



Deformed neck 4 



Amputated leg 4 



Amputated arm 3 



Rickets 1 



Infantile paralysis 25 



Paralyzed hand 1 



Paralyzed arm . 14 



Paralyzed foot 5 



Paralyzed leg 30 



Paralyzed back 3 



Paralyzed hip 1 



Paralyzed face 1 



Congenital paralysis 2 



Speech defect 2 



Tuberculous bone condition named 4 



The m.ental developm.ent of these 222 school cases was esti- 

 mated merely in an approximate manner from the reports of 

 ages and grades as follows : 



AGES IN YEARS NUMBER OF CASES 



6 11 



7 24 



8 31 



9 21 



10 38 



11 18 



12 23 



13 16 



14 18 



15 19 



16 . 2 



17 1 



Total 222 



The average age of these 222 crippled children is estimated 

 from these figures to be ten years. 



