SPECIAL CHILDRENSPECIAL RISKS
The Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities
MODERN APPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL WORK
Edited by JAMES K. WHITTAKER
James Garbarino, Patrick E. Brookhouser, and Karen J. Authier, Special ChildrenSpecial Risks: The Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities
Francine Jacobs and Heather B. Weiss, Evaluating Family Programs
Roberta R. Greene, Social Work with the Aged and Their Families
James Garbarino, Cynthia J. Schellenbach, and Janet M. Sebes, Troubled Youth, Troubled Families: Understanding Families At-Risk for Adolescent Maltreatment
Harry H. Vorrath and Larry K. Brendtro, Positive Peer Culture. Second Edition
Ralph E. Anderson and Irl Carter, Human Behavior in the Social Environment. Third Edition
Anthony M. Graziano and Kevin C. Mooney, Children and Behavior Therapy
Larry K. Brendtro and Arlin E. Ness, Re-Educating Troubled Youth
James K. Whittaker and James Garbarino, Social Support Networks
James Garbarino, Children and Families in the Social Environment
Norman A. Polansky, Integrated Ego Psychology
George Thorman, Helping Troubled Families
Steven P. Schinke (ed.), Behavioral Methods in Social Welfare
SPECIAL CHILDRENSPECIAL RISKS
The Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities
James Garbarino
Patrick E. Brookhouser
Karen J. Authier
and. Associates
ABOUT THE EDITORS
James Garbarino is President, Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development, Chicago. He has authored more than sixty articles on social development, child welfare, and education, and eight books, including Protecting Children from Abuse and Neglect, Understanding Abusive Families, Successful Schools and Competent Students, Children and Families in the Social Environment, Social Support Networks: Informal Helping in the Social Environment, Troubled Youth, Troubled Families and The Psychologically Battered Child. In 1985 he received the first C. Henry Kempe award for the "outstanding professional contribution to the field of child abuse and neglect."
Patrick E. Brookhouser is Director of the Boys Town National Institute for Communication Disorders in Children, Omaha, Nebraska.
Karen J. Authier is Administrative Director of the Center for Abused Handicapped Children and Director of the Family Support Systems at the Boys Town National Institute for Communication Disorders in Children, Omaha, Nebraska.
First published 1987 by Transaction
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Garbarino, James.
Special children, special risks.
(Modern applications of social work)
Bibliography: p.
Includes indexes.
1. Handicapped childrenUnited StatesAbuse of
Congresses. I. Brookhouser, Patrick E. II. Authier,
Karen J. III. Title. IV. Series.
HV888.5.G37 1987 362.488054 86-24170
ISBN 0-202-36045-8 (lib. bdg.)
ISBN 0-202-36046-6 (pbk.)
ISBN 13: 978-0-202-36046-1 (pbk)
CONTENTS
James Garbarino
Carl J. Dunst, Carolyn S. Cooper, Faith A. Bolick
Susan M. McHale, Wendy C. Gamble
James Garbarino, Karen I. Authier
James K. Whittaker
Helen V. Howerton
Patricia M. Sullivan, John M. Scanlan
Patrick E. Brookhouser
Gary B. Melton
William Modzeleski
Robert B. McCall, Thomas C. Gregory
Karen J. Authier
Abused children. Handicapped children. Abused handicapped children. Putting these two topics together is an important piece of the puzzle that is protective services. What are the special risks faced by abused handicapped children? How does one investigate a child maltreatment case in which the victim is blind? mute? deaf? mentally retarded? confined to an institution? Are such children at special risk for being abused and neglected? Are they in greater jeopardy in "the system" once a report of maltreatment is made to a protective services or law enforcement agency? Are handicapped children at special risk for maltreatment?
This book brings together a diverse group of expertsto pool their knowledge and share their concerns. As a former Fellow at the Boys Town Center for the Study of Youth Development, Jim Garbarino was asked to develop and edit this volume. In this effort he was joined by Patrick Brookhouser, Director of the Boys Town National Institute and Karen Authier, Administrative Director of the Center for Abused Handicapped Children. Both are expert professionals experienced in dealing with the intricacies of both handicapping conditions and child maltreatment, Brookhouser from medicine, Authier from social work. The other authors represent developmental psychology, psychiatry, clinical psychology, education, child welfare, law, public policy, and journalism.
Boys Town's Executive Director, Rev. Val Peter, gave freely and generously of his support for this project. Secretarial staff at the Boys Town National Institute helped in the preparation of the manuscript. We believe this book will prove useful to those who seek to deal with abused handicapped children.
James Garbarino
Patrick E. Brookhouser
Karen J. Authier
Karen J. Authier
Center for Abused Handicapped Children and Family Support Systems
Boys Town National Institute for Communication Disorders in Children
Omaha, Nebraska
Faith A. Bolick
Human Development Research and Training Institute
Western Carolina Center
Morganton, North Carolina
Patrick E. Brookhouser
Boys Town National Institute for Communication Disorders in Children
Omaha, Nebraska
Carolyn S. Cooper
Human Development Research and Training Institute
Western Carolina Center
Morganton, North Carolina
Carl J. Dunst
Human Development Research and Training Institute
Western Carolina Center
Morganton, North Carolina
Wendy C. Gamble
University of Denver
Denver, Colorado
James Garbarino
Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development
Chicago, Illinois
Thomas C. Gregory
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
Boys Town, Nebraska
Helen V. Howerton
National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Washington, D.C.
