Country Holidays for Mentally Deficient Children. Some Recent Developments

Mental Health Planning for Social Action

The author addresses himself to "all who work and plan for Cental health". He has been outstandingly successful in covering this wide field, both from the angles of mental defect and illness and also, very comprehensively, from that of prevention and the build-lr*g up of positive mental health. Readers in this country will be struck by the paucity of services for the mentally deficient and by t...

Mentally Deficient Children

Backward Children in Sweden

: Wherever the United Nations has its Problems, or relief teams are needed, here will be Swedes ready to help and Capable of holding responsible posts. 1 was particularly interested to see now such a country, with its social customs in many ways difTerent from ?Urs, and with a highly developed s?cial welfare system, approached its Problem of caring for mentally handiCapped children. during my s...

هوش عمومی یا سرعت پردازش اطلاعات؟

At the beginning of the present century, problems such as education of mentally retarded children, classification and placement of job applicants in industrial and military organizations, and students selection, gave impetus to the development of intelligence tests and the formulation of theories of intelligence. For many years factorial theories of intelligence dominated the field, but piaget'...

The Physical Education of Mentally Deficient Children

The place of Physical Education in the general education of mentally deficient children, has yet to be fully recognised. The normal child, given average health and opportunity, will develop the necessary ability for the simple skills without special training; he will have enough spring to jump off and on a bus, enough balance and coordination to climb over a high fence, or to stand on one leg t...