Exceptional Children and Public School Policy: Including a Mental Survey of the New Haven Elementary SchoolsYale University Press, 1921 - 66 pages |
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Page 19 - ... yet so pronounced that they require care, supervision, and control for their own protection, or for the protection of others, or, in the case of children, that they by reason of such defertiveness appear to be permanently incapable of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in ordinary schools...
Page 47 - ... accomplish for the delinquent without sending him out of the community for reform. 7. Speech Defective. Stuttering children are sadly in need of attention; for as a rule they are neglected by both parents and physicians. Only those familiar with the subject can appreciate how serious this handicap is, what suffering it causes, and what effects it produces on the more sensitive child. Stuttering is a disease, often associated with serious mental and nervous complications, but it is definitely...
Page 12 - ... the significance of this type of child is grasped, ways and means for ameliorating his condition and forestalling its latter day consequences, can be found. We need perhaps to develop a new type of school nurse, who by supervision, corrective teaching and home visitation will undertake the concrete tasks of mental hygiene. This psychiatric school nurse would be a counterpart of the medical school nurse and work in close contact with her, but she would revolve in a different circle of problems....
Page 61 - The chief officer or director of this division shall be appointed by the Commissioner of Education, with the approval of the State Board of Education, and shall be subject to the Commissioner of Education.
Page 15 - Connecticut, an exceptional school-child is "one whose mental or physical personality deviates so markedly from the average standard as to cause a special status to arise with respect to his educational treatment and outlook." 1 This is a rough but entirely adequate description of the child whose education forms the problem of this volume. Many attempts have been made at the definition of the unusual child, but the very safest procedure...
Page 13 - Only by such radical and sincere methods can we ever hope to reduce the massive burden of adult insanity. Expensive in the beginning, a preventive juvenile system of mental sanitation may after all prove to be a form of socialized thrift.
Page 12 - ... nail-biter, the over-tearful child, the over -silent child, the pervert, the infantile child, the unstable and choreic. There should in time be schools, classes and camps in close relation to city and state school systems, where children of this type may go for long or short periods and secure the combination of medical and educational treatment which alone is adequate to reconstruct them mentally. These provisions imply neurological and psychiatric specialists, educational psychologists and...
Page 63 - ... years of age, who because of some physical, mental, or other handicap, require special educational training or privileges. The state board of education shall make regulations requiring enumeration and reporting of all educationally exceptional children, including pupils chronically below the minimum standard of weight normal for their height and age. The parents or guardian of any child who has a remediable handicap shall be notified and given advice with respect to measures to remove such handicap....
Page 10 - If there is indeed such a thing as human engineering, nothing could be more unscientific than the unceremonious, indiscriminating, wholesale method with which we admit children into our greatest social institution, the public school.
Page 63 - ... public supervision to ascertain what pupils, if any, on the school register are chronically below the minimum standard of weight normal for their height and age; and to this end school officials shall require the annual measurement of height and weight of each child in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the Division of Special Education and Standards and approved by the State Board of Education. To the parents or guardians of each such subnormally underweight child there shall be...