A Study of Twenty Mentally Defective Pre-School Children Who Were Transferred to State Schools by the New York Foundling Hospital: 1946–1949
Abstract
Background of the Study. Providing care for the mentally incapacitated has been a problem that has existed since the beginnings of society. Today, despite the great advancements within society, conditions for the care of the mentally defective still do not measure up to desired standards. It has been felt that unless more efforts are made to improve the present conditions existing within this country, society never can hope to achieve the greatness it has anticipated over the years. Until the public fully realizes its obligation to these unfortunates, there appears to be little hope that the facilities for the care of the mentally defective child will ever quite equal those provided for the normal child in a normal home setting. However hard it may be to face the fact that these children are mentally defective, facing the truth is our first step toward helping them.
Subject Area
Early childhood education|Educational psychology|Special education
Recommended Citation
Dorsey, Frances Regina, "A Study of Twenty Mentally Defective Pre-School Children Who Were Transferred to State Schools by the New York Foundling Hospital: 1946–1949" (1950). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097029.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097029
