Sorry you are definitely correct. I decided to limit the participants to
children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy knowing that the functional
level would be very different in this group compared to children with
spastic quadriplegia or children with athetoid cerebral palsy or children
with hemiplegic cerebral palsy etc. My hypothesis being by limiting the
research to one specific type of CP, the population would be more homogenous
and potentially more associations could be drawn between education
placement, physical impairment, and gender. These associations would only be
investigated if the self concept tool itself is cross validated.

But again you are correct that only the conclusions regarding self concept
can be associated with children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy and
other studies are needed to make conclusions regarding children with other
types of CP.

Sorry,

Greta

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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: dissertation research
>Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:43:45 EST
>
>In a message dated 1/31/2005 2:30:07 PM Central Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
> > 1) Perhaps we will serve children with cerebral palsy better.
> > 2) Hopefully we will know more about children with cerebral palsy and
>and
> > how they feel about themselves.
>
>
>Greta,
>I will caution you here ... you will serve/know about the very specific
>group
>you asked to respond to your study ... it was NOT an all-inclusive group,
>and
>your results will not be all-inclusive.  Given that my son does not fit the
>categories you specified, I would personally take your results with a grain
>of
>salt.
>But I wish you the best.
>Wanda