Author: Charles Watters Odell

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-06

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780428025281

Excerpt from Provisions for Mentally Atypical Pupils Although the 107 principals and superintendents described the pro visions made by their systems in from one or two sentences up to several pages each, it seemed desirable to visit a number of them to secure a more intimate knowledge of what they are doing than was possible by correspondence. The writer, therefore, visited a number of these systems, selecting those which appeared to be doing the best work of this sort, which had something more or less different from most other systems, or which for some other reason it seemed desirable to include on the list. Those visited included ten combined elementary and high - school systems, seventeen township and community high schools, and seventeen systems composed of elementary schools only. About 40 per cent of those visited were within Cook County outside of Chicago, but the other 60 per cent were fairly well scattered over the northern two-thirds of the state extending as far south as Bridgeport and as far west as Rock Island and Moline. In size they ranged from systems enrolling somewhat more than three hundred up to one of over fourteen thousand pupils. Of the elementary schools reporting some provisions for children of atypical mentality almost two-thirds have some form of so-called homogeneous grouping. This ranges from quite formal and complete schemes to very informal and temporary grouping. More than half of the elementary schools reported one or more special rooms of some variety or other or special teachers who go from room to room or building to building giving assistance to individuals or groups most in need of it. About one-fourth reported miscellaneous provisions of various types not connected with either homogeneous grouping or special rooms or teachers. Of the high schools about two-thirds have some form of grouping, and two-fifths, various other provisions. From these figures it appears that many of the elementary schools are making two or even more types of provisions for atypical children, but that provisions of this sort are not so common among the high schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.