Access of Children with Disabilities to Services in Public Day Care Centers in Bicol

Children with physical disabilities are problems of public concern.  Their disabilities set them personally and socially at a disadvantage.  Being less able to respond and relate to people normally, they may find themselves ever relying on their families for support and tend to be withdrawn from people whom they feel would treat them differently for their disabilities. It would be even more discomforting when a physically disabled child is placed in the poverty of parents who just cannot meet the needed material means and understanding as well as care for their disabled child.  In such situation, parents may either provide more care or lack of it, resulting in any case to the strengthening of feelings of inferiority with the child being overly concerned for his or her deficiency.  The disabled child may then grow up with deepening consciousness for his or her physical deficiency.  Bitterness felt for this misfortune may be turned against other people.  With unresolved personal crisis, other more regressive actions may be resorted to which may consequently conflict and exhaust the patience of his or her parents and other people around him or her.