Educational options for children with medical needs
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Psychology
- Keywords
- Children with medical needs, school attendance, mainstreaming
- Copyright
- © 2014 Capurso
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2014. Educational options for children with medical needs. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e268v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.268v2
Abstract
Schooling is known to influence a wide range of economic, social and psychological aspects of people’s life, but children with medical needs are subject to school failure more often than their healthy peers. The aim of this paper is to review different school options available to the paediatrics community for the education of children with medical needs. Hospital school, home tuition and mainstream school re-entry are examined. Critical aspects for each type of solution are discussed. The provision and stability of adequate educational opportunities for children with medical needs represents an important area of collaboration between doctors, educators and parents for the prevention of long-term consequences of illnesses and therapies.
Author Comment
This is a revised submission with minor corrections. A sentence has been slightly changed and a reference has been corrected.