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Show BACKWARD There Are Four to Five Million inUnited States San Francisco, Cal., July 14. The closing day of the National Educational Educa-tional association's convention here developed a program In many respects the most important of the session, from an educational point of view. Activity in the musical section was especially marked, the afternoon being be-ing devoted to a recital by California composers Much attention also was given to the study of the "backward child problem'' Dr Maxmlllan P. E. Grossman of Plainfield, N J , said that the country contains between four and five million children of this type and that of these at least 600,- 000 are distinctly abnormal. No adequate data as to the legal status of these children and their upbringing up-bringing is obtainable A tendency to use most stringent measures to discourage the propagation of inevitably inevit-ably backward children was shown In other papers and in discussions. Robert J Aley, president of the University of Maine, comended medical med-ical inspection of. school children. Charles TJ. Lowry, district superintendent superin-tendent of school of Chicago, discussing discus-sing the teaching of deaf children, feaid that generally they were not found to respond'.fnlly to tests along other mental and physical lines, and that their emotional life was cramped. Miss May Gearhart, superintendent of drawing in the Los Angeles schools, admitted that public buildings, streets and private .houses showed an improved im-proved standard of taste. She urged the development, of imagination In children v |
