Children with Mental and Physical Handicaps

are much more numerous and much more promising. The backward child has sufficient capacity, not only to make his way in the world socially and vocationally, but also to attain considerable success in many trades, occupations, and vocations in which he possesses special aptitude. He will attain such success if he is given proper vocational training in school in correlation with the literary work, provided that he is not handicapped by hampering temperamental, emotional, volitional, and moral abnormalities. Many dullards often possess traits that may compensate for their intellectual dullness?such as industry, persistence, enthusiasm, ambition, and working energy?and that may enable them to achieve greater success in many walks of life than some intellectuals who lack motivation and who detest work. The backward child, then, is potentially capable of self-maintenance, selfmanagement, and self-determination."