Children with disabilities in West Africa experience violence from the day they are born

(New York University) Disabled children in West Africa experience significantly greater violence than their non-disabled peers and all experience violence from they day they are born, finds a study published in BMC Public Health by Janet Njelesani, assistant professor of occupational therapy at New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news