Mentally Defective Children with Additional Handicaps
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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 walk. Two walked normally, one could attempt to walk with a shuffling gait if supported, and one could move about well, but had gross inco-ordination. Of the seven remaining, three had suffered from gross deafness from a very early age and
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