. Backward and feeble-minded children; clinical studies in the psychology of defectives, with a syllabus for the clinical examination and testing of children . tate institution for the feeble-minded, entitled the LincolnState School and Colony, was the first of the state institu-tions to establish a psychological department. The presentvolume presents some of the main results of the writers workin charge of this department for a year and a half from itsinception. There were few- traditions and no rules a- to what sucha department should do or what studies should be under-taken. As the work was
. Backward and feeble-minded children; clinical studies in the psychology of defectives, with a syllabus for the clinical examination and testing of children . tate institution for the feeble-minded, entitled the LincolnState School and Colony, was the first of the state institu-tions to establish a psychological department. The presentvolume presents some of the main results of the writers workin charge of this department for a year and a half from itsinception. There were few- traditions and no rules a- to what sucha department should do or what studies should be under-taken. As the work was actually done and as it is here re-ported it consisted, first, in a provisional classification anddescription of the membership of the institution as a wholebeginning with the new admissions, involving the adoptionof certain routine tests and of an official terminology in termsof which classification could be made: Second, the clinical 4 BACKWARD AND FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN. study of thirty-two border cases of backwardness and feeble-mindedness, made upon the highest-grade children of the in-stitution : Third, a formulation of the methods of case study,. A CORNER OF THE LINCOLN LABORATORY. and of suitable research tests for the mental functions in-volved in mental defect. Without further preliminaries, thework will be presented in this order. CHAPTER AND TERMINOLOGY. A preliminary problem had to be settled early, that of aclassification system and a fixation of usage for the mostcommon terms. The words idiot, imbecile, and feeble-mindedhave been used in the most varied and contradictory senses,even in the courts and in the institutions themselves, to saynothing of the confusion of laymen. It had become abso-lutely necessary to come to some agreement about there are many forms of each of these: many causeshave operated and many types have been produced. And asto the intelligence, there are, of course, many degrees to bedistinguished. The possible grou
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