BACKWARD CHILDREN
INVESTIGATION SUGGESTED. At yesterday's sitting of the Council of Education the B Committee reported that it had. considered the treatment of retarded children referred to it on to nreccding day, and recommended .the following Motion :—"That in the opinion o this council it is urgent that immcdiato Investigations ob made of retardation in school children, with a view to discovering and supplying remedial measures, and that in ordei to nrovide early amelioration, as well as n means of investigation, ocifflWisliGd fi9 soon as may do in an larger schools -for -the better eduenhon of children of retarded mental developm The committee, said Mr. Howell fclt that thero were many causes of rMnnia ion and'that the emsrrt actual retardedmental development should re- « v prompt attention. Some backward children were not lacking, m mental developmont. , , , The remit was adoptea. ■
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 226, 18 June 1920, Page 6
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