This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...data are precise or not, it still remains true that the public-school teacher, both in regular and special classes, meets frequently children who are retarded, and she must decide whether they are retarded from physical defects or from mental defects. In other words, she must know enough at least about the condition of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...data are precise or not, it still remains true that the public-school teacher, both in regular and special classes, meets frequently children who are retarded, and she must decide whether they are retarded from physical defects or from mental defects. In other words, she must know enough at least about the condition of things to determine whether the child should be sent to a medical specialist or to a psychologist; and if it is not possible to send the child to a specialist, she preeminently must know enough of this class to decide on the pedagogical individual needs of the case. Otherwise she may by mistaken training inflict injury on the weakened intellect instead of improving it. In the following pages we will give in the simplest way possible the signs of, first, those physical defects which should be called to the attention of a medical specialist; and, second, those which should lead the parent or teacher immediately to take the child to a mental specialist for a full examination. Note.--For a complete discussion of this subject the reader is referred to The Conservation of the Child, by Arthur Holmes, 1912, J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia; price, $1.25. Of these purely physical defects we find defective hearing, defective vision, defective breathing, defective speech, defective teeth, defective posture, most often. We are paying more attention to the conditions to-day because we are obliged to do so. Health in these days is regarded as a "civic obligation," or, in other words, a public duty; as much so as the cleanliness of a city's streets and the disposal of its garbage. Value of Present-day Physical Examination Our school-children are expected to undergo quite as careful and frequent physical examinations and re-examinations as they ...
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