Exceptional children and public school policy, including a mental survey of the New Haven Elementary School (1921) (14587052998)

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Title: Exceptional children and public school policy, including a mental survey of the New Haven Elementary School
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Gesell, Arnold, 1880-1961
Subjects: Exceptional children
Publisher: New Haven, Yale Univ. Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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be a universalschool practice. Although this problem is fundamentally medi-cal, so much of the work is educational in character that it maywell be considered in connection with the total problem ofspecial classes and auxiliary educational provisions. V* A Plan for Public School Provisions for MentallyDeficient Children in New Haven 1. Welch School (Double Special Class Room, established 1913) 2. Dixwell Avenue School (Double Special Class Room, estab-lished 1915) S. Neighborhood School (Edwards Street Special Class, estab-lished 1»15) 4. Fair Haven Training School (Organized, 1920; Attendance, 100pupils) 5. Oak Street Special Class Room 6. St. Francis Orphan Asylum (Double Special Class Roomneeded) 7. Carlisle Shop School 8. Farm and Garden School 9. Dante School (Double Special Class Room, established 1917) 10. Highwood School, Hamden (Double Class Room, established1919-1920) 11. New Haven County Home (Special Class established, 1919) 12. Westville Special Class (Established, 1920)
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FAIR rt/fVf/V MAP SHOWING PLAN FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL PROVISIONS FOR MENTALLY DEFICIENT CHILDREN SUPERIOR AND ATYPICAL MENTALITY 47 The Speech-Defective Child There are two major types of speech defect—stuttering andlisping. In stuttering there is a spasmodic or uncontrolledrepetition of words, syllables, or initial sounds, usually con-sonants. Lisping is a faulty articulation, slurring, mispro-nunciation or substitution of sounds. Teachers were asked toreport only cases of very faulty articulation and of stuttering.The total number of cases reported was 302, or 1 in 78. Evidently this is a problem of no small dimensions. Even ifwe disregard lisping altogether, there are probably fiftysevere cases of stuttering in the New Haven schools, and astill greater number of milder cases. These stuttering children are sadly in need of public schoolattention; for, as a rule, they are neglected both by parentsand physicians. Only those familiar with the subject can ap-preciate how serious this handi

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