Abstract
The creation of a Bureau for Handicapped Children and the designation of Dr. Helen M. Wallace as Director of the new Bureau has been announced by the Department of Health, City of New York. At present the program of the Bureau for Handicapped Children involves 6 different services for handicapped youngsters. It maintains a register of all children with orthopedic handicaps; it administers (at a cost of approximately $1,000,000 a year) the state aid program under which approved hospitals and convalescent centers are paid for the care of handicapped children; operates 29 diagnostic clinics chiefly for school age children; works with the Board of Education in placing children with handicaps in special classes; jointly, with the Board of Education and private organizations operates 2 special school units for youngsters with cerebral palsy and cooperates with the New York Heart Association and New York University in a special pilot program for children with rheumatic fever and heart disease.
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