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The Needs Of Children
During this Year of the Child there has been in many aspects a renewed emphasis on the role of the family, both in the area of prevention and early intervention. In many ways, parents can be helped to work with the pre-school handicapped child, avoiding the pitfalls which have occurred in the well-to-do industrialized countries, where for some quite inexplicable reason early intervention was generally neglected until the recent past, and where organized programs started with school age or a bit later....
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Title: The Needs Of Children
From: Speeches Of Rosemary F. Dybwad
Creator: Rosemary F. Dybwad (author)
Date: 1979
Format: Speech
Source: Friends of the Samuel Gridley Howe Library and the Dybwad Family
Keywords: Activists; Advocacy; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Education; Educational Institutions; Family; Human Rights; India; International Relations; Parenting; Policy; Puerto Rico; Rosemary Dybwad; Treatments Therapies Cures; United Nations
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy
Note: Speech delivered at Symposium of ILSMH, San Juan, Puerto Rico.


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