Citation

Sawisch LP, Fitzerald HE. Child Care Health Dev. 1976; 2(4): 171-180.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1976, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

134848

Abstract

Sheridan's article concerning the importance of spontaneous play for learning in handicapped children reflects both a historical and a contemporary negative valuation of 'handicapment'. Specifically, the authors suggest that contemporary views of handicapment fail to take into consideration the social and cultural concomitants of handicapment and in fact create an atmosphere wherein learned helplessness and self-fulfilling prophesies thrive. This state of affairs can only serve to perpetuate contemporary negative valuations of those individuals culturally labelled as 'handicapped'.

Language: en