What emotional and behavioural problems do children with hemiplegia face?
Many parents of children with hemiplegia have told us that their child’s everyday life is less affected by the condition itself than by associated “invisible’’ problems affecting education, emotions, behaviour or relationships. The trouble with invisible difficulties is that people outside the family often don’t take them seriously enough. A child who is unable to make friends or who has severe behavioural problems may be at least as badly off as a child in a wheelchair – but we all know that it is the child in the wheelchair who captures the public imagination, and attracts the most clinical care and research.
