. Backward and feeble-minded children; clinical studies in the psychology of defectives, with a syllabus for the clinical examination and testing of children . ed in his lack of memory and of com-prehension. He spent about seven years in school, with littleprogress. Physically the boy weighs but forty-nine pounds and isthree feet eight and a half inches tall. His head is twenty-eight nuns, below the normal in girth and twenty-one in length, but exceeds the normal breadth by sevenmms. His strength of grip and lung capacity are those of asmall child, and his rate of tapping is proporti
. Backward and feeble-minded children; clinical studies in the psychology of defectives, with a syllabus for the clinical examination and testing of children . ed in his lack of memory and of com-prehension. He spent about seven years in school, with littleprogress. Physically the boy weighs but forty-nine pounds and isthree feet eight and a half inches tall. His head is twenty-eight nuns, below the normal in girth and twenty-one in length, but exceeds the normal breadth by sevenmms. His strength of grip and lung capacity are those of asmall child, and his rate of tapping is proportionately vision is defective in both eyes, his hearing is normal. He has a very broad face, small mouth, irregular lowerjaw and a uvula that is diminutive or wanting. His eyesare widely separate and seem small, probably the palpebralfissure is short. The skin is somewhat wrinkled and leath-ery. He is pot-bellied, the genitals are abnormally small, andthere is a small right inguinal hernia. 140 BACKWARD AND FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN. In school Kenneth reads fairly in the third reader, addsand subtracts, and in other subjects does about the work of a. KENNETH M. AND TETER A. ten-year-old boy. He attends well, gets on well with others,and is not credited with having any faults. Every onenotes his bashfulness. He plays second cornet in the insti-tution band and his instructor states that in nine monthswork he has only fallen about one month behind the normalprogress, but that he is slightly below normal in musicalability. In the liinet examination Kenneth earns a mental age ofnine with a retardation of seven and a half years. He wasinterminably slow and hesitant in his reactions, and infantilein his speech and manner. His responses are weak, with lit-tle spontaneity or self-assertion. He is extremely sensitive, CLINICAL STUDIES OF LOUDER CASES. I4I and is about as frail mentally as he is insignificant mental ways as well as his appearance and walk impressme as do th
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