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Show 5,000,000 HandicappedGhildren Twenty-five per cent of the children of the United States 5,000,000 in round numbers are growing up undi-r handicaps which they cannot themselves remove, according to the Nation. 1 Association As-sociation for Study and Education of Exceptional Children, which was in session at the New York University recently. Intelligent- action on the part of their elders is required in the opinion of the speakers. The needs and aims of the movement were outlined by the president, Dr. A. Emil Schmitt, of New York. Children have been classfied by the association as follows: Those whose progress has been hindered by change of schools, slower rate of development, temporary illness. Slight physical difficulties, such as lameness lame-ness or mind deformities, slightly impaired vision and hearing, adenoid vegetation and similar troubles. Those who deviate from the normal type Irom hereditary, congenital and environmental causes. Over stimulated children irritable, excessive in imagination, without properly prop-erly emotional poise, hysterical, having lack of concentration, perverse tendencies, tenden-cies, precocity, lears and obsessions, motor disturbances and other ills of that class. . Dr. M. NeustacrUer. neurologist at Bellevue Hospital, told how the sins of the fat ier are visited on the child, closing his address with the declaration that "the chill Usually picks a few s ns on its own account as it goes alu;;g. " McCall's Magazine. |