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THE SLOw-LEARNING CHILD
3. In physical characteristics such as height and weight, and in
motor development. +he mentally rctarded are on the average orly
slightly inferior to the normals. There is a great overlapping
of the subnormals and normals in these characteristics.
4, In functions such as speech, mental growth, and learning
ability the mentally retarded child is significantly inferior
to the normal child,
- The investigations on play activities, occupational
activities,and personality seem to indicate that the mentally
retarded have greater difficulties than normals, :
. Bs .Idiots and imbeciles are considered uneducable and are
usually cared for at home or in institutions for the mentally
deficient.
7, High-grade and bofderline mentally retarded children are
educable and can be trained in the rudiments of reading, and in
somecases can reach as high as the sixth or seventh grade,
Since readihg is a very important school subject in our present
civiliaatiofl, society may well devote time and energy to such
training.
S The schools should not require the mentally retarded to
keep up w1th the curriculum constructed for the normal Chlld, but
should have a curriculum adapted to his needs and capabllltles.
Furthernore, since intellectual development and learning ability
are the méin deficiencies of the mentally retarded child, and
since there is no overlapping between the normals and subnormals
in these fuhctions, it would appear that greater emphasis should
be placed on the study of their learning capabilities and technigues
for the most efficient methods of instructions,
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