School intervention for the neuromuscularly handicapped child.

School problems are common in children with neuromuscular disease irrespective of their degree of handicap. They are related to difficulties in transportation and access, difficulties with adaptation of school tasks to the motorically handicapped, and difficulties that arise because of misunderstanding of the disease processes by teachers and parents. Most of these can be easily rectified by efforts by the clinic staff to educate school personnel and to enlist them as members of the treatment team. In view of the importance of the school experience to this group of patients, it is urged that these problems be identified and aggressively managed by those involved in the care of neuromuscularly handicapped children.