'Core Knowledge' of General Paediatricians

摘要

In this issue, we adopted the speech delivered by our special education expert Ms. Betty Ip. Ms Ip has been devoting her time and effort to take care of children with various learning difficulties for the past 2 decades. The long term care of children with learning disability is an area that most paediatricians, especially those working in the acute care hospital, seldom pay attention to in the past. While many paediatrician colleagues complained that the paediatric population is shrinking in Hong Kong, it is time for us to re-think whether we have been providing adequate care to our children with various chronic disabilities and special needs.