An Educational Centre for Mentally Handicapped Children

Dear Sir,?The editorial in the spring issue of this Journal stressed the need for provision of more lr*stitutions for defectives. Without in the least minimizing this need, I want to point out that the strain on institutions could be greatly relieved if more and better day centres could be provided for children classed as " ineducable A number of occupation centres have been set UP during the last few years. But occupation centres suffer from several grave defects, which render their educational value for the handicapped child almost illusory.