The World in Medicine
Abstract
Focus on Disabled Children
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child will begin 1998 by developing an action plan to reform laws that result in maltreatment and isolation for the world's 140 million disabled children.
During a planning meeting last month in Geneva, Switzerland, the committee noted that 1 of every 10 children has some type of physical, mental, sensory, intellectual, or psychological disability caused by preventable...