THE USE OF TOOLS BY CHILDREN WITH HAEMOPHILIA

Abstract
Eight mothers with their 3.1- to 5.7-yr-old children with hemophilia and 8 control mothers with their children were videotaped while playing 3 games using a knife, a pair of scissors and a wooden hammer, and 2 games without tools. Although the children with hemophilia were less proficient, took less care and were more excited when handling sharp tools than the control children, their mothers did not correct their children when they used a knife incompetently and carelessly. Counseling should emphasize the deliberate preparation and training of the hemophilic child in the use of tools which are potentially dangerous.

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