Identifier: mentaldefective00virg (find matches)
Title: Mental defectives in Virginia:
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Virginia. Board of charities and corrections. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (n.p.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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dle-Grade; an adult with mentality of normal child one year old; feeds self anything.High-Grade-, adult with mentality of normal child two years old; eats discriminatingly. Imbecile., .ho w-tUrade; an adult with mentality of normal child three orfour years old; plays a little; tries to help.Middle-Grade; an adult with mentality of normal child five years old; can perform only the simplest tasks.Higli-Grade; an adult with mentality of normal child six orseven years old; can do little house errands such aswashing dishes and dusting. 10 State Board of Charities and Corrections Moeox Low^Grade; an adult with mentality of normal child eight or nine years old; can scrub, mend, care for room, makebed, etc. Middle-Grade; an adult with mentality of child ten years old;can do regular work; uses tools. High-Grade; an adult with mentality of child eleven or twelveyears old; can do complicated work such as caringfor animals, using machinery, but cannot plan. MORON HIGH GRADEIMBECILE MEDIUMIMBECILE
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LOW GRADEIMBECILE IN MENTALVELOPMEXT.Where they stumble—thelimit of developmentof each type.(Reprinted from the sur-vey of Oct. 11-13.) The BineUSimon Measuring Scale for Intelligence. This Scale, which was originated about twelve years ago by Binet andSimon, two celebrated French psychologists, consists of a series of gradedquestions, or tests, by which mental development may be measured. It wasstandardized by Binet on the children of the middle class of France, andwhen introduced in the United States, was adapted for American use byDr. H. H. Goddard, of Vineland, N. J. Dr. Goddard says of the Scale: No one should be surprised that theBinet-Simon Measuring Scale for Intelligence has met with criticism and Mental Defectives in Virginia 11 opposition. It is doubtful if even its most ardent advocates read it overfor the first time without feeling that it must be impossible for such ascale to be reliable; and it is only after repeated trials and continual dis-covery of the accuracy wit

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