Journal of Pediatric Neurology and Medicine

Pediatric long-term hospitalisation and education: Developing a model for the lexical analysis of key works of children's literature

Abstract

Leigha Inman

It is widely understood that one of the challenges of pediatric medicine is seeing to the development of patients who, by reason of long-term hospitalisation, may miss out on educational experiences. This requires the profession to collaborate across disciplines. One of the most cutting-edge interdisciplinary topics in the social sciences is the application of understandings from the humanities to traditionally social scientific disciplines such as education studies. This paper proposes such a topic. It has often been observed that children enjoy literature. The role of reading in the development of reading ability is an important area of research.