Education of Mentally Handicapped Children

This is an excellent text book for teachers and other professional workers concerned with the education of the mentally handicapped. It deals mainly with "special class" teaching which is equivalent to teaching in schools and classes for educationally subnormal pupils in this country. It would also however have particular value for teachers of older children and adults in Occupation Centres. A valuable contribution made by the book is its extensive review of other work in the field of educating the mentally handicapped. Each chapter has at the end a large number of references for further reading, and there are probably few publications of any value which are not mentioned. Administrators and educationalists considering new schemes for training the mentally handicapped would find the information and suggestions given in the book to be of special value, but there is no one in this special branch of education who would not value it as a useful reference book. Although it will be most profitably studied by those who have had some background in educational methods, it is so clearly and simply written that a beginner in the field could read it with profit. The material included deals with such subjects as organisation and administration of special classes, teaching procedures (e.g. the need for concrete procedures, for repetition, for systematic orderly progress), qualifications of the special class teacher, objectives of the special class etc.