Excerpt from The Mental Health of the School Child: The Psycho-Educational Clinic in Relation to Child Welfare, Contributions to a New Science of Orthophrenics and Orthosomatics
The publication of these papers and addresses in a single volume was prompted, first of all, by the widespread interest which is rapidly manifesting itself in all sections of the country in the grave social and educational problems which spring from the presence in every populous community of large numbers of mentally abnormal children. It is now generally recognized that many of the most vexatious problems in our present-day social economy are somehow bound up with the mental and educational abnormalities of childhood. Educators, physicians, sociologists, penologists, criminologists, lawyers, clergymen, philanthropists and parents, therefore, welcome any attempt to gain deeper scientific insight into the nature, extent and causes of the mental, moral and educational arrest, deviation or deficiency of children. The papers included in this collection aim to show in slight measure the aid which the practical psychologists and expert educational consultants hope to render in the important work of diagnosing, identifying, studying and training feeble-minded, backward and mentally abnormal children in the schools.
During the last three or four years the writer has published a number of experimental memoirs, articles and addresses in American and European periodicals dealing, from different points of view, with a common theme: the scientific study and the care and improvement of the mental and physical misfits in the schools, or, in a word, the conservation of child life.
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