Backward and feeble-minded children : clincial studies in the psychology of defectives, with a syllabus for the clinical examination and testing of children / by Edmund Burke Huey.

  • Edmund Burke Huey
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1912
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    realize that they must join hands with each other and with sociology and education in training clinicians capable of rendering this service. This little volume suggests but a few of the possibilities of such clinical work. The studies are of school children or of persons who have been school children. With normal home conditions few, if any of them, would have reached an institution. They are just such exceptional children as one meets in the schools of a hundred cities, and they are of con- siderablv hi gher grade than verv many that one finds there. J O O J If they could have been studied in their home schools, I should know a good deal more about them. But the pictures of them here are as full and as true as circumstances per¬ mitted me to make them. Years ago at Heidelberg, Professor Kraepelin told me, with enthusiasm which I well remember, how much he thought might come from an intensive clinical study of a group of some thirty school children. On my way to Lincoln Dr. Adolf Meyer encouraged me to undertake some such study in the Illinois institution. The results of a practice try-out of the plan are here before the reader. There are always limitations, methods were to be made, and of course the studies are imperfect enough. But whether for my de¬ velopment as a psychologist and educator or for the render¬ ing of my most useful service, I could hardly ask a better opportunity than to repeat such a study in a public or private school, particularly if the study could be made under the auspices of a well-equipped university. To Superintendent H. G. Hardt, who had the foresight to found and support the department, and to the Illinois State Board of Administration, whose attitude has been one of most cordial and intelligent co-operation, my best thanks are due. I wish to acknowledge, as well, the effective assistance
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