SCHOOL FAILURE

Abstract

Modern preventive pediatrics recognizes that the school life of the child is one of the important environmental forces affecting his total well-being. Learning difficulties, or any problems interfering with adequate functioning in school, thus enter within the province of pediatric care. While the cause of a learning difficulty may be purely educational, to be handled adequately by the school authorities, the problem is frequently more complex and involves a variety of physical, emotional, or social factors. The pediatrician, through his close acquaintance with the child, his family, and their environment, is in the strategic position to seek and co-ordinate the services needed for the correction of these multi-faceted problems. In order to do so he must be thoroughly acquainted with the many factors which may interfere with a child's school performance so that he can correctly evaluate the problem and find the appropriate avenue for help in the individual child.

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