Care and education of crippled children in the United States . So long as the two kinds of information mentioned are notavailable we do not feel prepared to recommend specific trades asbetter than others for introduction into schools for cripples. If acrippled child has sufficient ability and if necessary funds can besecured for his education in one of the professions where the workis chiefly mental, his problem becomes an easy one; but thesecases are rare. For those who lack special mental ability, or forwhom it is not possible to secure the money necessary for theundertaking of long years of
Care and education of crippled children in the United States . So long as the two kinds of information mentioned are notavailable we do not feel prepared to recommend specific trades asbetter than others for introduction into schools for cripples. If acrippled child has sufficient ability and if necessary funds can besecured for his education in one of the professions where the workis chiefly mental, his problem becomes an easy one; but thesecases are rare. For those who lack special mental ability, or forwhom it is not possible to secure the money necessary for theundertaking of long years of training, the best opportunities seemto be in the direction of skilled handicrafts, including needletrades of all kinds, commercial engraving, mechanical drawing, themaking of articles from wood, reed or metal, printing, cobbling,manicuring, and photography. * A list of graduates from the Industrial School for Crippled and DeformedChildren in Boston, with the wages they are earning and the cause of crippling ineach case, is given in the Appendix, p. 235. 90.
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