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Terminology to benefit children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Hilary Hart

Abstract

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Terminology means ‘a set of words used in a specially understood or defined sense’. From the standpoint of an international journal welcoming English language material from all over the world, it is apparent that widespread differences in meaning and uses of terminology exist in the field of developmental medicine. Differences in terminology matter, as Bax and Mac Keith commented, ‘First, foremost, surely, is how careful we must be in our language. If words are used... (that) confuse us they may in fact harm the patient’.

Type
Editorial
Information
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology , Volume 41 , Issue 10 , October 1999 , pp. 651
Copyright
© 1999 Mac Keith Press