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A 3 page reaction paper to an essay by Dorothy C. Buck, entitled “Raoul,” which recounts the experience of this mother in raising a son with cerebral palsy. The writer discusses the implications of this article in regards to medical practice as it was in the 1960s contrasted with the holistic nursing practice of today. No bibliography is provided.
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in 1968, but was not diagnosed as having "mild brain damage with some indication of mild cerebral palsy" until he was 2-and-a-half (Buck 20). The overwhelming response of this writer/tutor
to this sensitive, well-written article is how much Raoul, and his parents, could have benefited from the developments that have occurred since the 1960s and 70s. The emphasis in
child development studies when Raoul was born was on normally developing children and the author found that there was little or no data on the problems encountered by Raoul.
Due to his handicaps, Raouls development, both physically and cognitively, was extremely slow. The Yale Child Study Center was among the numerous institutions to which Buck turned for help in
order to help her son learn to communicate, as Buck had no clear idea how much "Raoul understood" nor how to instruct him on "more appropriate speech" (Buck 22). While
one clinician was willing to work with Raoul, this individual moved away after a few months and "No one else took an interest" (Buck 22). Today, healthcare practitioners encourage
parents to obtain early diagnoses of childhood developmental problems, so that interventions can begin early. One of the problems with which Raoul coped was that one side of his body
weaker, less developed than the other. This delayed his walking, and, even after he walked successfully at age 3, it took several more years before Raoul felt enough confidence in
his motor ability to step from the curb to the street (Buck 21). His mother indicates that this disability took an emotional toll on her son and she emphasizes that
if she could have located a rehabilitation facility willing to work with him, it might have prevented some of his later physical problems, but, at the time, no program for
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