. Backward and feeble-minded children; clinical studies in the psychology of defectives, with a syllabus for the clinical examination and testing of children . competent in sewing and em-broidery. She attends normally, gets on well enough withothers, but is abnormally sensitive to reproof. She readswith ease any ordinaryprinted matter, but hasnever learned to multiplyand divide. She writes avery fair and normal hand. The Binet tests give Min-nie a mental age of 11V2years with a retardation of4^2 years. She thought ofand named 111 words inthree minutes, told the timewhich clock hands would in-d
. Backward and feeble-minded children; clinical studies in the psychology of defectives, with a syllabus for the clinical examination and testing of children . competent in sewing and em-broidery. She attends normally, gets on well enough withothers, but is abnormally sensitive to reproof. She readswith ease any ordinaryprinted matter, but hasnever learned to multiplyand divide. She writes avery fair and normal hand. The Binet tests give Min-nie a mental age of 11V2years with a retardation of4^2 years. She thought ofand named 111 words inthree minutes, told the timewhich clock hands would in-dicate if interchanged at agiven time, gave rhymes togiven words and could usu-ally tell what to do whenasked about a variety ofemergency situations. Shesaid Friendship is a per-son who is kind to one an-other. Apologizing for an incorrect drawing she said, Im not a very good course. She showed abnormal fearfulness and edgi-ness about any unusual occurrence, and extreme suggesti-bility. After some trouble with a test she broke out withSometimes I get so stupid I dont know what to do. Tn the written tests she crossed 81 and 98 As in two two-. Mi xxie <;. 4 BACKWARD AND FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN. minute trials, and succeeded with \~ of 20 similars in onetrial but did badly in another and in the tests for opposites,and gave rather weak reproductions of the stories. Punc-tuation marks are absent and capitals are usually in the wrongplace or omitted. She causes breaks in the composition byomitting words that were probably present to her thought andwould he expressed if she were talking. She also writes thewrong word by times, apparently from distraction. Whenshe has to write of happenings that are at all complex shebreaks down and simplifies the matter in semi-incoherentstatements. But her thought generally progresses thru thestory in sequence as things occurred, and her frequent errorsin expression seem to be phenomena of confusion and offrail power of synthesis. She s
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