Some Behavior Changes in a Juvenile Paretic

Her abnormality was first noted in school. She had seemed to make average school progress until she reached 2-A, which grade she repeated. She also repeated the third grade where she became slow and seemed sleepy. Her writing became unintelligible; her speech, incoherent ; and her behavior, unpredictable. She lost her way when sent to school, lost her sense of propriety in school and cried to be taken home, and did not seem to be able to adjust well with the group. It was at about that stage that Patty was first seen by a psychologist. There were then noted in her test performance great irregularities, the nature of which seemed to indicate that she once had been able to master material which was now beyond her ability and only part of which she now retained. The case has now been