CLOSE UP - THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN - MINIMAL BRAIN DISORDER

A look at Minimal Brain Dysfunction, a phenomenon affecting one percent of New Zealand children, giving rise to learning and co-ordination difficulties. "Contact" is an organisation formed by parents of children with MBD. These parents have had difficulty in convincing doctors that there is anything wrong with the children and say that late diagnosis and delay in treatment adversely affects the children's progress. Interviews with Helen Cullen, Doctors James and Skinner and parents.