. Backward and feeble-minded children; clinical studies in the psychology of defectives, with a syllabus for the clinical examination and testing of children . ental age of ioJ/> CLINICAL STUDIES OF CASES. 123 years, a retardation of 2 years. The written tests show ahandwriting that is irregular, with crooked words and linesand rather infantile characteristics. There is rarely a capi-tal or punctuation mark. The mis-spellings, tho not fre-quent, are of interest: stad (statue), thouth (thought),granden (garden), enuth (enough), filed (fell), prise(present). Besides, she tends to use
. Backward and feeble-minded children; clinical studies in the psychology of defectives, with a syllabus for the clinical examination and testing of children . ental age of ioJ/> CLINICAL STUDIES OF CASES. 123 years, a retardation of 2 years. The written tests show ahandwriting that is irregular, with crooked words and linesand rather infantile characteristics. There is rarely a capi-tal or punctuation mark. The mis-spellings, tho not fre-quent, are of interest: stad (statue), thouth (thought),granden (garden), enuth (enough), filed (fell), prise(present). Besides, she tends to use the infinitive or parti-ciple forms of the verb everywhere. Her thought seems toprogress normally,tho simply, but shecannot readily putwhat she thinksinto written sen-tences. The totalout] mt in thesetests is very mea-ger, rather belowwhat the Binet testswould indicate. In tapping Xorais 27 below withthe right hand andn above with theleft. being left-handed. In thistest as in others shewas passive, calm,with no facial ten-sions. With themore difficult of theBinet tests she N0R ^ L tended to remainsilent, trying but stuck, her mind seeming paralyzed and. 124 BACKWARD AND FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN. inactive, her eyes filling- with tears and her lip was repeated over and over. The poor physical condition, very weak vision, and paucityof mental resources, with the over-seriousness of demeanor,render this case rather unpromising, tho recent school re-ports show some progress. CASE 26. â Insan-ity and Feeble-M ind-edness in the Pneumo-nia. Bright and At-tractive. CLINICAL STUDIES OF BORDER CASES. I25 Harriet (/.. Age Eleven Years. Harriet is a really bright and sweet little girl, a star atthe school entertainments and a favorite with question as to her normality has often been at the age of six orseven, her family record is un-promising. A grandmother ofweak intelligence, a mother in-sane since adolescence, a fatherrepor
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