Backward Children.

Backward Children

Dr. Holmes' contribution to the series edited by Professor O'Shea is "an inductive study of backward children. It presents in a series of concrete illustrations," says Dr. Holmes, "studies of cases to exemplify the principles and methods underlying the diagnosis, treatment and training of backward children." His aim has been to describe the cases "simply, non-technically, and humanly." His succ...

Backward Children in Sweden

: Wherever the United Nations has its Problems, or relief teams are needed, here will be Swedes ready to help and Capable of holding responsible posts. 1 was particularly interested to see now such a country, with its social customs in many ways difTerent from ?Urs, and with a highly developed s?cial welfare system, approached its Problem of caring for mentally handiCapped children. during my s...

Backward and Feebleminded Children

Backward and Feebleminded Children. By Edmund Burke Huey. Baltimore Warwick and York, 1912. Pp. xiii-j-221. Illus. "Years ago at Heidelberg," writes Dr. Huey, "Professor Kraepelin told me, with enthusiasm which I well remember, how much he thought might come from an intensive clinical study of a group of some thirty school children. On my way to Lincoln, Dr. Adolf Meyer encouraged me to underta...

Backward Children in the Making

The Education of Backward Children

M. t. Hill, 13.A., with an introduction by H. Boyes Watson, M.A. Harrap. pp. 174. 6s. To read such a book while on A.R.P. duty io an area where special schools have been seriously disorganized, is a reinvigorating experience. The book contains an account of almost three years' experimentation in Southend?n-Sea with dull and backward children. The C.A.M.W. was asked to lend two educational Psych...