Education for the disabled in war and industry : Army hospital schools : a demonstration for the education of disabled in industry . Chart 7. Progress of Forty Men in Unit Course in Drafting man the possibilities in school preparation, but might also revealto him interesting fields of endeavor for which he had specialaptitudes hitherto unknown to him. Thousands of men, however, pursued courses of instructionfor sufficient length of time to make considerable and creditableeducational and vocational progress. Chart 7 shows the experi-ence of forty men with the unit course in drafting. In ten les
Education for the disabled in war and industry : Army hospital schools : a demonstration for the education of disabled in industry . Chart 7. Progress of Forty Men in Unit Course in Drafting man the possibilities in school preparation, but might also revealto him interesting fields of endeavor for which he had specialaptitudes hitherto unknown to him. Thousands of men, however, pursued courses of instructionfor sufficient length of time to make considerable and creditableeducational and vocational progress. Chart 7 shows the experi-ence of forty men with the unit course in drafting. In ten lessonsaveraging about two hours and three-quarters in length, thegrowth in accuracy, neatness, and quality of drawing is rapid anduniform. The final drawings show an understanding of the Achievement 39 principles of machine drafting that is surprising when it is con-sidered that it was secured with less than thirty hours of practiceand instruction. Chart 8 gives the experience of forty-five men in typewritingat Camp Dix. The class shows steady improvement in the num-ber of strokes per minute and the percentage of accuracy during. Commercial Art, Sign Writing, and Mechanical DrawingEast View, New YorkAll are practical vocational courses requiring simple equipment and adaptedto convalescent patients. All present many leads. fifty hours of work. One hundred twenty-one strokes per minuteis about twenty words of the length found in average corre-spondence, and is more rapid than ordinary longhand. Whenit is considered that these men had learned the correct fingeringfor touch typewriting and were already started on the rightroad to become competent typists, it is evident that it was nomean accomplishment to have been secured in fifty men became sufficiently expert as vulcanizers, teleg-raphers, auto mechanics, typists, welders, accountants, and in 40 Education for the Disabled in War and Industry other lines of work to be able to secure and hold good commercialpositions imme
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