Care and education of crippled children in the United States . the establishment of schools for convalescents in residentialinstitutions and of special day schools for cripples who live athome. It has usually been only after the pressing needs for sur-gical attention, convalescent care, and education in the simpleacademic branches have been met in some degree in a communitythat the question of vocational training for crippled children andyoung people has received serious consideration. The same arguments which are advanced for the occupa-tional or vocational training of healthy children apply
Care and education of crippled children in the United States . the establishment of schools for convalescents in residentialinstitutions and of special day schools for cripples who live athome. It has usually been only after the pressing needs for sur-gical attention, convalescent care, and education in the simpleacademic branches have been met in some degree in a communitythat the question of vocational training for crippled children andyoung people has received serious consideration. The same arguments which are advanced for the occupa-tional or vocational training of healthy children apply also tocrippled children. There is difference of opinion as to the age atwhich any childs preparation for wage-earning should begin, butmost educators agree that this special training promises to everychild a better chance of a good start in life and more rapid ad-vancement than would be possible if he had no preliminary train-ing. When the child is a cripple, certain other considerationsenter: First, the simpler forms of industrial work, as well as grade 62. Wood-working Room
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