The Development of a Curriculum for a School for Adolescent Mentally Handicapped Children, Together with a Survey of Several Existing Schools of This Type

AND BACKGROUNDIt has been recognized for many years that there are a substantial number of children who are inadequately endowed with intelligence or intellectual capacity. Their mental deficiencies are frequently serious enough to preclude profitable or useful participation in any of the educational programs intended to benefit the much greater number of average or normal children.