. Backward and feeble-minded children; clinical studies in the psychology of defectives, with a syllabus for the clinical examination and testing of children . 1Z 13 1H 15 TOTAL cases/V 13 11 15 10 8 IS IS 1Z 13 H H 0 0 0 110 MALCS7 9FEMAIES6] Fig. 5. Note.—Of the numbers indicating mental age 1 taeahs having a mentalityof 1 vear or under. 2 means above 1 year but not over 2 years, etc. Thus achild testing to 9% years is included with the LO-year group. l6 BACKWARD AND FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN. Above the mental age of ten the number of admissions isseen to be almost negligible. Four of the
. Backward and feeble-minded children; clinical studies in the psychology of defectives, with a syllabus for the clinical examination and testing of children . 1Z 13 1H 15 TOTAL cases/V 13 11 15 10 8 IS IS 1Z 13 H H 0 0 0 110 MALCS7 9FEMAIES6] Fig. 5. Note.—Of the numbers indicating mental age 1 taeahs having a mentalityof 1 vear or under. 2 means above 1 year but not over 2 years, etc. Thus achild testing to 9% years is included with the LO-year group. l6 BACKWARD AND FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN. Above the mental age of ten the number of admissions isseen to be almost negligible. Four of the eight who arrivedleft within the year. Two of these were insane, and one. anepileptic, was so complaining that his people soon removedhim. The fourth was a third-grade schoolboy, the butt of. Fig. 6.—Under one year of mental age. The child looking- up is one ofthree who showed The least mentality of .ill the children tested. Iiis town, wh<» stayed but a few weeks. Four were femalesex offender-. The average age of the children classed here as idiots years; of the imbeciles it was 12 years, and of the years. But one idiot was over sixteen years of age;but four imbeciles and four morons were over eighteen oldest moron was thirty-six: the oldest imbecile was CLASSIFICATION AND TERMINOLOGY. 1/ forty-five, and the oldest idiot was twenty-seven. It is tobe noted that the institution discourages applications forchildren that are over eighteen, interpreting its function tobe that of a school for children in the formative period. How-ever, the state has not provided elsewhere for the older de-fectives, who are very numerous and very dangerous tosociety. Eleven of the new admissions classed above as moronsand nine of those classed as imbeciles are of
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