Physically handicapped children

For many children, the presence of an impairment leads to rejection or isolation from experiences that are part of normal development. This situation may be exacerbated by faulty family and community attitudes and behaviour during the critical years when children's personalities and self-images are developing.

1. Physically handicapped persons
2. Impoverished disabled persons
3. Disabled children

1. Physical independence handicap
2. Mute children
3. Deliberate deformation of children's bodies
4. Deaf children
5. Blind children

1. Stress on families of the physically or mentally handicapped
2. State custody of deprived children
3. Segregation of handicapped children in education
4. Maladjusted children
5. Loneliness of children
6. Family rejection of physically handicapped

1. Vulnerability of women and children in emergencies
2. Physical maltreatment of children
3. Militarization of children
4. Human birth defects
5. Foetal alcohol syndrome
6. Cruelty to children

1. Supporting physically disabled children
2. Rehabilitating physically disabled children
3. Providing prostheses to mine-injured amputees
4. Deforming children
5. Clearing land mines

1. Deformation
2. Handicapped
3. Cripple
4. Disability