. Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . C classes, those who do not speakEnglish. It is more than probable that a high percentage of these—atleast much higher than that we give for the general group—are feeble-minded, and must have special instruction in the language because theyare too defective to readily pick it up. In other words, this is only anillustration of what we find regularly, that a physical condition oftenobscures the mental defect. A child may be feeble-minded, but if heis also a foreigner we ascribe his defect to langua
. Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York .. . C classes, those who do not speakEnglish. It is more than probable that a high percentage of these—atleast much higher than that we give for the general group—are feeble-minded, and must have special instruction in the language because theyare too defective to readily pick it up. In other words, this is only anillustration of what we find regularly, that a physical condition oftenobscures the mental defect. A child may be feeble-minded, but if heis also a foreigner we ascribe his defect to language; just as in adultlife a man may be feeble-minded, and as a result of that a drunkard,the alcoholism always obscuring the feeble-mindedness. People say,Yes, he is weak, but he would be all right if he did not drink. We have another illustration, although of no great significance toour numbers: There are in the city 490 crippled children in specialschools. Undoubtedly a high percentage of these are mentally many feeble-minded children who are crippled, blind, or deaf, have. z ^ o 2 i 3 P^ H
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