Mental Status of Rural School Children - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1373697938 ISBN 13 : 9781373697936

Editeur : Wentworth Press, 2016

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Présentation de l'éditeur

By E. H. MuLLAN, Passed Assistant Surgeon, United States Public Health Service. At the request of the Delaware State board of health, State board .of education, and Cooperative Educational A ssociation, the United States Public Health Service undertook a sanitary survey of the rural schools of New Castle County, including the mental status of the school children. This survey is part of a series of cooperative investigations of educational, health, and sociological conditions in the State of Delaware by the Public Health Service, the National Bureau of Education, the Children s Bureau, and other agencies. In order to supply certain data desired by the Children s Bureau in their investigations, the mental survey herein reported was conducted prehminary to the general survey. It continued from January 6to May 1, 1916. During this investigation 3,793 children were studied. Of these, 19, or 0.5 percent of the total, were found to be definitely feebleminded and in need of careful supervision or institutional treatment. In addition, 50 other children, or 1.3 percent of the total number examined, exhibited abnormal mental symptoms to such an extent as to be considered probable mental defectives. At the beginning of this survey a majority of the school children were tested by the Binet-S imon scale, and those who showed symptoms of mental abnormality were examined by supplemental methods. The routine giving of the Binet tests to every pupil was soon replaced by a briefer sifting process for the purpose of finding those children of low intelligence or those in whom mental peculiarities existed. This brief examination was composed of questions and tests suited in a general way to the childs age and school grade. I f, during this prehminary examination or sifting process, symptoms arose which suggested mental abnormality, the case was examined more thoroughly. At this s
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wentworth Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1373697938
• ISBN 13: 9781373697936
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 36
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible