Notes about Institutions for Defectives

Observations on the Training of Idiots and Low-Grade Imbeciles

or almost impossible to find vacancies in Certified Institutions for low grade or troublesome defectives. Mental Hospitals and Public Assistance Institutions are unwillingly obliged to receive these cases. Local Authorities are well aware of the harm and hardships which ensue from the retention of this type of patient in Public Assistance Institutions. The Board of Control require that Mental D...

Institutions for Defectives

The Work of Local Voluntary Associations and Possible Future Developments

almost directly after the Mental Deficiency Act came into force in 1914. One of their main objects was the co-ordination of all public and voluntary work undertaken for defectives in their own homes, throughout the area, covered by a Local Authority under the Mental Deficiency Act, i.e., a County or County Borough. The Constitution of these Associations varies according to Local conditions but ...

A Rehabilitation Programme for Certified Mental Defectives

on those legally certified as feebleminded, and studies in both this and other institutions (5) show consistently that the I.Q.'s of such persons range between about 50 and about 110, with an average between 70 and 80 on such tests as the Wechsler, Stanford-Binet, Progressive Matrices, Porteous Mazes and Kohs Blocks. This I.Q. range extends much higher than might be expected by those who adopt ...

Extra-Institutional Care of Mental Defectives in New York State, U.S.A.

No State should consider itself either humane, or efficient from a business point of view, which continues to support in idleness any of its dependents (not excluding those physically or mentally handicapped), who might, under proper training and supervision, become at least partially self-supporting. But as a rule it is not until an intolerable weight of taxes drives a state into new methods o...