. Backward and feeble-minded children; clinical studies in the psychology of defectives, with a syllabus for the clinical examination and testing of children . ho for who,lift for lived, gard for gar-den, bouj for boy, brig forbridge, dint for didnt, siadfor said, spreank felte forSpringfield. Reproducing Thechildren knew how to work the fly-ing-machine, she writes, Andthey new How too Work on theMashin. The A-test showed manyerrors, and the tests for similars andopposites seemed beyond her com-prehension. She showed one-thirdless than the normal rate of Binet finding of 4 years of
. Backward and feeble-minded children; clinical studies in the psychology of defectives, with a syllabus for the clinical examination and testing of children . ho for who,lift for lived, gard for gar-den, bouj for boy, brig forbridge, dint for didnt, siadfor said, spreank felte forSpringfield. Reproducing Thechildren knew how to work the fly-ing-machine, she writes, Andthey new How too Work on theMashin. The A-test showed manyerrors, and the tests for similars andopposites seemed beyond her com-prehension. She showed one-thirdless than the normal rate of Binet finding of 4 years ofretardation is thus confirmed by herlamentable failures in most othermental tests and by her very slowprogress in school studies. Evenif her age should not have been cor-rectly stated by her people, herpower to do mental work evidentlylags well behind even her physio-logical development. But this little girl is pretty evenlybalanced as far as she goes, and is able to make the most ofher rather scanty resources. Whatever she attempts to dois performed with fair efficiency and promptness, and onedoes not note that she attempts but little. There is nothing. FANNIE II. CLINICAL STUDIES OF BORDER CASES. T2I to attract unfavorable attention in her ordinary behavior,as she is socially companionable and reach* to be more or lesshelpful, tho perhaps a little lazy. And it is thus not sur-prising that with her winning face and ever-ready smile sheis often thought to be quite normal and to belong a matter of fact, if she had a good home she would cer-tainly be cared for in it. and properly perhaps. With goodhome conditions from the first she might have shown lessof mental retardation. But as things are, while on the phys-ical side Fannie has reacted well to proper hygiene, mentallyshe has not made much progress; and 1 am inclined to con-sider this a case of fundamental defect of mild degree, show-ing mainly as mental dullness and inaptitude for any think-ing that involves repres
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