Educational Abilities and Needs of Orthopedically Handicapped Children

TODAY many educational centers serving orthopedically handicapped children maintain curricululums closely resembling those supplied to normal children. School officials, teachers, principals, and administrators in these special schools require that the orthopedically handicapped child meet and maintain standards established for normal children. The underlying assumption guiding educators is that the present regular academic program is satisfactory and that it can be followed equally well by the normal child and the orthopedically handicapped child provided some modifications are made for the latter