A Syllabus For The Clinical Examination Of Children

Author : Edmund Burke Huey
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ISBN 13 : 9781331886389
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Backward and Feeble-Minded Children written by Edmund Burke Huey and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Backward and Feeble-Minded Children: Clinical Studies in the Psychology of Defectives, With a Syllabus, for the Clinical Examination and Testing of Children The public schools receive and partially control, for a time, almost all of the individuals who will later trouble society as delinquents or dependents, or who will be troubled themselves by insanity or other forms of mental disturbance. Usually only the lowest grade of feeble-minded children fail to find their way to school. Except in the case of infrequent offenders, and excepting also persons whose mental disturbance is due to specific kinds of poisoning, these individuals usually show exceptional conduct even in their school period, and they would be taken account of as children who need special attention, by anyone trained to and experienced in clinical observation. There is here the possibility of studying in advance the main sources of social danger and of individual misfit and shipwreck. There is equally the possibility of forestalling many of these ills and of taking away in advance the sting and smart from many an unhappy life. Aside from the service to be rendered to normal children and teachers by wise clinical oversight and counsel, the recording of exceptional functionings and facts in the case of these exceptional children, the canvassing of their potentialities, favorable and unfavorable, would be of inestimable service for the intelligent study of society's ills and for the solution of the problems that these individuals themselves present. Of most immediate need is the provision of special classes for children who need a special pace or course or treatment to enable them to win success at something useful instead of failure at something useless. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.