Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tests for learning and perceptual disabilities before staff members meet with parents to set what Dr. Robert Haslam, the institute's director, calls "realistic goals for their habilita-tion." It also provides in-and outpatient services for 140 children. Similar programs are carried out at the Developmental Evaluation Clinic at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, whose director. Dr. Allen Crocker, believes that almost every retarded child can be helped in some way. He spends much of his time training parents to accept the retarded as human beings. Parents must also learn not to give up hope...
...Harvard student who sits for an hour in the walk-in clinic of the University Health Services (UHS) only to be told that his appendicitis is psychosomatic, can now constructively voice his complaints...
...Then a student at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Engleman arranged to have each person interviewed at length on his or her feelings toward man and woman physicians. Though all clinic patrons, the patients included college-educated middle-class people as well as the poor. These findings are excerpted from Engleman's unpublished study...
...Lundmark children attend local schools, where the teaching is first-rate. All pupils get their books and daily hot lunches free. At the local clinic, an outpatient visit costs $1.50. A city "social bureau" provides, among other things, "home help" to look after the children in an emergency. The Lundmarks also can use the city's bounteous sports facilities, including a curling hall, two pools, four ice-skating arenas and 20 athletic halls. Like all Swedes, they get a $224 state grant at the birth of each child, and collect an annual $250 allotment until the child reaches...
...terms of the specific grant," Hellman said, "we feel no pressure at all. Those who have had money granted for buildings may feel some political pressure. Our purpose is to improve our ability to transfer the results of the lab into the clinic...