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Working with a Brain-Injured Child

Working with a Brain-Injured Child Working Wi@ a.Bfai.-i!iuju&d child by RONNA BENJAMIN and RHEA McKAY JACCH PAGE 99 This is an account of how thechild lifestaff at This article is divided into a chronological E.W. Sparrow Hospital, Lansing, hfichigan account of our interactions with the child and worked with a child who had suffered a head some of our thinking and planning at the time, injury and was comatose when we first saw him. and suggestions for working with other,similar This particular child, like most comatose children drawn from our experience. The work patients, presented many problems. He not was difficult, but rewarding. There is no specific only needed extensive medical care, but there evidence that o;lr efforts helped this child, but was uncertainty concerning his existing neuro- without the human contact, thk variety of logical capacities and prognosis. He was materials available and the opportunities for inactive and unresponsive, but his impaired activity, at the very least, it would have been motor ability may have inaccurately reflected more difficult for him to exercise his returning his cognitive ability. capacities. Upon first consideration, it may seem that a Timothy, age 7, was admitted to the hospital child life staff, concerned with normal growth unconscious, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Association for the Care of Children in Hospitals Taylor & Francis

Working with a Brain-Injured Child

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Working with a Brain-Injured Child

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Working Wi@ a.Bfai.-i!iuju&d child by RONNA BENJAMIN and RHEA McKAY JACCH PAGE 99 This is an account of how thechild lifestaff at This article is divided into a chronological E.W. Sparrow Hospital, Lansing, hfichigan account of our interactions with the child and worked with a child who had suffered a head some of our thinking and planning at the time, injury and was comatose when we first saw him. and suggestions for working with other,similar This particular child, like most comatose...
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Working Wi@ a.Bfai.-i!iuju&d child by RONNA BENJAMIN and RHEA McKAY JACCH PAGE 99 This is an account of how thechild lifestaff at This article is divided into a chronological E.W. Sparrow Hospital, Lansing, hfichigan account of our interactions with the child and worked with a child who had suffered a head some of our thinking and planning at the time, injury and was comatose when we first saw him. and suggestions for working with other,similar This particular child, like most comatose children drawn from our experience. The work patients, presented many problems. He not was difficult, but rewarding. There is no specific only needed extensive medical care, but there evidence that o;lr efforts helped this child, but was uncertainty concerning his existing neuro- without the human contact, thk variety of logical capacities and prognosis. He was materials available and the opportunities for inactive and unresponsive, but his impaired activity, at the very least, it would have been motor ability may have inaccurately reflected more difficult for him to exercise his returning his cognitive ability. capacities. Upon first consideration, it may seem that a Timothy, age 7, was admitted to the hospital child life staff, concerned with normal growth unconscious,

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Journal of the Association for the Care of Children in Hospitals – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 1, 1980

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