Show I 9 Sl i NEW ERA BEGINS FOR DEFECTIVE CHILDREN An Important and ond Humon Educational Movement hoe has I Ben Been Begun In Chleo jo jop p n I PS t fl II fl fl L II fl fl fl fl One ot of the mos most Impo important tant education at ot of the present do day and andone andone one which appeals to ard and Interests Interest the tho communIty to 1 aim extraordinary extent extent Is Just being inaugurated In Chicago anti wi will shortly be wih with the tho university ot of olt city says the tho Cleve Cleveland land Plain Deler Dealer In toot o I who his has a weak or child 1 haU wih delight time the innovation which the new system wi make In providing for tor the necessity Qt of those unfortunate Itte littie ones who tho through nervous derng derangement ment or other disability cannot annot stand the brunt of at time the every day m methods thos of at teaching pro provided vided for children In a normal state ot of health In the common schools The Thc school oWes Is its origin to 10 MIt Miss ar R It ot of Milwaukee who II is devoting her to the stud study ot of weak wak and detective children Mis Miss Campbell who I je head hend ot of the no now schools ln says there Is a large lare clu class ot of slightly d tie t children ten but litte little below nor normal normel mel mal who without Injury to themselves study In public or or ordinary schools html but who with proper cato care ant and training can be greatly poper grut h helped pe In our we claim nothing original said ald Ill Campbell In an In nor do dD we claim to transmute an chil child Into a normal be log W e do 10 hope however to overcome by OUr ninny of at the mental and ph CI I peculiaritIes anti to bring the mInds ot of these thes children a as nearly as to n a normal In handling luch such children n each Mch t teacher arher must evolve her own suited to the individual needs We Ve are tl testing suied with these e children the value ot of the tho pedagogIcal methods which experience lisa has prof proved to be most FUce with wih normal children ron No o child Is admitted Into the thc schools until I mc thorough ding dlag 1911 noah hal has been submitted b by either the tandl family or one ODe of at the r regular CO neur loht titan then the chUd Ii Is nut un on probation All and It if b II is not nat kept In h ool U it II Is unfeelIng for tor I III k t reject t some cases coe I this Ii 1 never until we are cone con 11 that nomal Is in PO We have to be very er hinting and acid I it Is hard to han where the lint line ot of demarcation aha be drawn hut but the school Is tie do pl for tor educational purposes anti ami not for tor service rf tf bean accepted as a 0 vt of the school tests ests and measurements are made madeI I i each ench child This work Is done b blore by lore some ot of th the consulting physicians and experimental psychologists By means menns of at these physical and al tests test we 0 are able to get an approximate mate male Idea idea ot of the mental status and calber caliber ot of these children Careful are kept ot of each childs progress by physicians teacher teachers and nurses In order to show the Iho sense development tests teats are made from time to time by members of at tte the faculty who have made madea n a of at children giving special at tenion to tho measurements an and ph II cal signs b by which correct inferences of at r rn action eln can be made Te The life ot of each child In regard to exercise stud study diet etc will be e In ac accordance accordance with the advice ot of J the clan who diagnoses the case The task ot of overcoming the deficiencies of at these thes children rest rests mainly wih with the teacher and not wih wIth the physician Many par parents snake make the mistake ot of supposing that this II is the work ot of the physician and therefore tal fail to put the child under skIlled teachers and It la Is not until the most valuable years ot of the tho childs life lite are over oer that the tho parents realize their mistake We prefer proter to 10 take toko very young dren Our reason for tor this is that young nerve nere cels cells are more amenable to train trainIng training Ing and par parents ont have hao come tome to tel test who hind had they te been I In the hands ot of skied skIlled teacher teachers of at might haVe hae become nearly Marl lor nor normal mal This educational work should be begun al as CoOn 00 us tie the child II ii recognized as deficient i anti the bet best years tau for tor such training are en time the oges of at three anti nine for tor I it Is at that time that the brain Is In tie the formative period believe elee that time the accurate records we keep wi vill give to 10 pro additional data on time the try ot of the subject for tor physicians even eHm cannot devote mich couch time to the detail study ot of these children This work must be done b by those coming Sri In dal daily contact them In our work wih with this class 0 of cull drel dren WI we aim to make them natural In behavior to train them to observe think und anti net for In our educatIonal we will pay lar br attentIon to the domestic sciences cookIng sowing etc In OUr cooking classes we have both boys and girls girl As 49 Asyet yet we c are RivIng giving but lite little attention to 10 sewing and wi will not for some time t at t leat least until there Is beter better lon lion ot of muscles Our children are too nervous for tor the regular schools of sew sewing ing and therefore we wt will give them only large and carse coarse materials to work with l Everything that we teach tench our Ihl dren dNn viii m have MOO some practical place Ind and will 1 t fit them for Q a In the le life Utility will 1 11 ll ot of the training As the majority of th the f n cannot 10 go out Into so society we 0 olin aim to ft 01 them for tor their own home Iloma circles anti thereby prepare them for u and Industrious hence happy lives Our highest aim Is to them useful members ot of society In their own little family le life While our children must mut 11 lIve rather s lives because ot of theIr extreme and I ill health yet eL they wi will willbe be brought Int Into contact nR as much as Is wise anti possible nornal normal children and with the lire ot of formal people For or this trips trIpe are arc arranged for tor torre some re of t to art gallerIes concerts and childrens enter As s soon as we rn complete arrange arrangements merits ments wih wIth some one or of time the we wi wilt begin our training work cork fur for nurses Ther Is I a geat great demand for tor special nurses for tor nervous children The purpose of this training school chol will be beto to 10 meet thIs demand With tM the ton tier of t the surgical work nurses wi will take their training with us m for tor th time sur gital training arrangements will I be made mache with one ot of the hospitals In order to make the course ComPlete and ond to 10 give ghe an experience Our course 1 not airier time the course excepting that our nurse nurses will wt be fitted ted to 10 handle this partIcular ot of children and will be 1 required to do work In practical psychology In order that the they ma may thoroughly thorough understand the mental ot of abnormal chi chit dren drea As nurses come In luch such close contact with lh these theM children their oh ob wi will be ot of real value alue In psychiatry The part ort ot of the nurses course wi will be based upon kindergarten work On graduation our nurs nurses will 1 be fitted to positions as or nursery nunery governesses The ancestry personal physiology and history ot of the children wi vili lie he closely studied and time the results It at wi will turn furnish Ish valuable data to the university In the wn way of at hild ld stud study S senSe n o tests and the tho effect of at nero ner nervous stud study derangements on the capacIty for |