Abstract
Self-descriptions were obtained from 107 children with handicaps and 128 nonhandicapped children aged 9 to 11 at a summer camp for underprivileged New York City children. Each child was interviewed and asked, Tell me about yourself with follow-up nondirective probes. The descriptions were tape-recorded and transcribed. Descriptions were analyzed by means of a set of perceptual categories largely inductively derived during a pilot study. Differences in self-descriptions between children with and without handicaps reflected the functional restriction on physical activity, deprivation of social experience, and the psychological impact of the handicap. The purpose of this study was to examine empirically the effects of
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