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The Benevolent Over-Reaction

A Well-Intentioned But Malignant Influence on the Handicapped Child

Developmental Evaluation Clinic of Western North Carolina, Inc., Asheville, N. C. 28801

B.H. Hartman, M.D., F.A.A.P.,

Developmental Evaluation Clinic of Western North Carolina, Inc., Asheville, N. C. 28801

It is most important to identify handicaps and handicapping sit uations in their early stages, and start constructive counseling with the parents immediately thereafter. Such counseling can be readily performed, in the early stages of parental reactions, not only by family physicians but even by specially trained nurses and nurse-practitioners. It is most important to start this counseling at once, initiated "on-the-spot" by the identifier.

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