SAVING THE BACKWARD SCHOOL CHILD

The Backward Child

edition shows how necessary this book of Sir Cyril Burt is to those who teach and have dealings with the welfare of sub-normal children. Most psychologists appear to be detached from the physical side of the lives of their patients. Burt, however, from the time of his early appointment as Psychologist to the London County Council, links up the child's mental development with the physical and en...

The Backward Child

The causal factors of backwardness are submitted to close statistical treatment, with results which may distress too optimistic social theorists. ' The causes of backwardness prove unexpectedly numerous and varied : and in most cases not one cause, but several, are at work.' (p. 564.) But the chief cause of backwardness is naturally dull intelligence, a condition beyond remedy. Most teachers an...

The Education of the Backward Child

Backward Children in the Junior School

universally. To begin with, this Junior School consists of some 350 boys from 7 plus to 11 plus and draws them from two rather distinct areas, one a respectable district with neatish villas, the other an old district that tends to crowded slums. Within these two different areas exist two Infants' Schools which feed my school and in addition I receive many casual admissions, invariably from poor...

The Neurotic School Child

become sufficiently evident from the subsequent discussion of the specific types. Most neuroses, as recent investigation has shown, have their ultimate origin, not in adult life, but during childhood; and, as a rule, the neurosis in the grownup person is continuous with the neurosis of the child. During childhood itself a nervous affection of this kind may hinder mental growth and hamper normal...