[Medicine and education]

Abstract

Medical-educational cooperation is of long standing in disability care. The roots of this tradition in the fields of blindness, deafness, physical disability, and mental retardation are touched on, and the further development of the overall medical-educational task in rehabilitation is outlined. Various aspects of team work and of remedial education systematics are set out in light of the changing positions among experts in the rehabilitation process. The importance of value orientation is emphasized.