Movement and Rhythm in Remedial Education

It is well known that disabilities of the mind are often found together with motor defects. The latter show sometimes in the lack ?f skill in the use of the hands or the fingers, sometimes in some clumsiness in movements of the legs or feet. Amongst the educationally subnormal, we can at first sight distinguish two main groups. There are those children who are ?ften considered as maladjusted, whose defect is mainly a moral defect; they may show a low scholastic intelligence, which is ^pressed in their low I.Q.; but they may well be able to take an effective line of action for they have often that amazing grasp of Sjtuations which is essential to the efficient offender; we may call it a guttersnipe intelligence which is characteristic of people with a Primitive attitude to life, and which is in our view a deviation from Scholastic intelligence; on the commonly used I.Q. scales it is not Measured. Nevertheless, it is a capacity for intelligence. These children are good with their hands, but heavy on their heels and [he motor defect shows in a lack of co-ordination between limbs,