Mentally Defective Children

Mentally Defective Children with Additional Handicaps

a special teacher was engaged for them on three afternoons a week for a period of three months. The group consisted of five children with cerebral palsy (two from rhesus incompatibility) of whom three had gross deafness and no speech, one had no deafness but very little speech, which was of poor quality and almost unintelligible; the fifth was normal in hearing and had some speech but could not...

The Board of Education's Circular on Mentally Defective Children

The Circular issued by the Board of Education on September 12th, a full summary of which we print below, is one of the most important steps to promote the welfare and safeguarding of mentally defective children which has been taken by any Government Department since the passing of the Mental Deficiency Act and the Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Act in 1913 and 1914, and as such we...

Prisons and the Mentally Defective

Deficiency Act. Under Section 9 of the Act, 23 persons found to be mentally defective were removed from prison to Certified Institutions. In the years 1924-27, the average annual number of prisoners certified as M.D. was 257; in the years 1928-34, the annual average was 251; the amended definitions in the M.D. Act of 1927 appear therefore to have little practical effect, so far as this particul...

The Mentally Defective Child at Home

Work among the Mentally Defective in Switzerland

By Gertrud Lortscher. Translated by W. E. Houghton. Who is mentally defective? The idea of mental deficiency is a wide one, involvingmuch discussion. Psychologists vary in their conception of its boundaries. I am not going to discuss this question, but rather the place in social life of him who is considered mentally defective. " He is abnormal, who, on account of a deviation in his intellectua...