title: Range of emotion.
abstract: Physical therapists speak of the range of motion given to patients with physical handicaps. There is for families, a "range of emotion" that is part of having a handicapped child. My daughter fills me with both joy and pain, yet she is completely passive. She speaks only with her eyes, and I am learning to listen with mine. In this article I show a rare glimpse inside the heart of a mother with a severely retarded child. It is an honest account of the range of emotion felt, the values that have been affected and the intense love I feel. Our bonding that is normally developed between mother and infant grows only stronger and lasts forever.
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000523:psychology; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D013577:Syndrome