Report of the Departmental Committee on Defective and Epileptic Children.

  • Great Britain. Committee on Defective and Epileptic Children.
Date:
1898
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    EPILEPTIC FITS—cone. Instructions for treating, 83. Effect of the sight npon other children, (Beach) 268- 72; (Wahnslcy) 4062-8; {Ferrier) 52.52, .5;311-1, 5276-9; {Caiman) 6092-5; [Du Fort) 6924; 81 = EPSOM: c Inquiry by Mr. Dibben as to defecti\'e children, (Dihben) 6835-9. EXAMINATION: Of 100,000 children in schools, &c., how conducted, (Warner) 718-26, 786-92, 941-50, 989-91; (Galion) 6946, 6010-1, 6016-8, 6039-48. Of feeble-minded children by Charity Organisation Society, (Warner) 986; (Loch) 5389-95, 6485-8, 5627-35, 5560-8, 6415-8. Becommended, of children absent from school, 22 ; and of children attending school and found to be feeble-minded, 28. Of children in special classes, (8ev:ell) 6342-8; 62. EXCLUSION: Of defective children from school, (Warner) 823-9, 878,901-2,936-40; (Golman) 6069-71, 6194-6. From special classes, (Verrall) 2314; (Aidis) 3188-90; (Martin) 4031-3, 5041-4, 5086-91; (Price) 6510-2 ; (B) 11 (c). Of epileptic children from school, (Ferrier) 5363-5; (Caiman), 6072, 6m-7; B2. EYE: Defects of, (Beach) 120; (Warner) 725, 729, 785, 807-8; (Wahnslcy) md; l.C.ii. Movements, (Beach) 120; (Kerr) 597; (Warner): 729; (Eolm) 7831-4. FAILURES: Some recorded in Aubert Park Home, (Tail) 4890-3. FAMILY: History, (Harris) 1092-9 (Whemnan) 2685-91; (B) S ; 28, 31. FAZELEY: StaiFordshire: return as to defective children, (ColviU) 6580, 6614. FEEBLE GRASP: Physical exercises, suitable for cases of, (Holm) 7814. i. D. (2). C. FEEBLE-MINDED: Use of term, (Shutthworth) 40, 59; (0) 6; 12. FEEDING: Proper, for epilepsy required, (Beach) 303-4; (Gaskell) 4488-9. FEES: At homes for feeble-minded, (Beach) 152. At schools for blind and deaf children, (Pooloy) 6282. In special classes, none, (Airy) 7323; in Brunswick (A) 1~l; in Norway, none, (yi) ^9, FERRIER, Dr. DAYID, Professor and Physician to King's College Hospital; Physician to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic : Distinguishing defective children from imbecile; expert advice necessary. 6215-7. Some defective children'in idiot asylums, 6218-21. Defective children should be kept apart from idiots, and sent either to special classes, or, in some cases to institutions, 6218-31. ' Methods of distiuguishiug defective from ordinary children: difficulty of such distinction ; physical appearance not sufficient test; knowledge of lii'e- history, medical opinioii, and actual probation in school required, 6232-43, 5271, 5338-48, 5351, 5355 -7, 5371-2. Epileptic children; if fits not severe, can attend ordinary schools, 5244-61, 6275-9. Epileptic fits not specially alarming to defective children, but injurious to highlv sensitive children and children predisposed to epilepsy, 5252, 6311-4, *y2i i 5—9. Epileptic children, if fits severe, should be sent to a liome specially provided, 6263-69, 6283-6. 5363-4 Epileptics at Darenth, 5361. ' ' Epileptics excluded from school, 5363-5. FERRIER, Dii. D.—cont. Employment, constant, necessary for epileptics, 6269 -60 ; out-door occupation best, 5264. Sexes should be separate in epileptic colonies, 5267-9 . Similative epilepsy discredited, 6278, 5311-4. Age at which epilepsy develops, 6287-93. Physically defective children should be sent to ordinary school, 6270, 5280-2,- 5334-7. Sexes, equal number of defective children, 5394-8. Employments for feeble-minded, 5306-7, 5831-3. Punishments necessary for feeble-minded, 5308-10. Infantile paralysis, 6316-6. Imitation by feeble-minded children of one another; 6317-9._ Feeble-minded children never really self-supporting, 6320-8. Age no standard of classification for feeble-miudcd, 5329-30. Medical officer required by Education Dcpartmont, 5367. FISHER, Mr. A. B., Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, Plymouth District. See Harrison. FOREIGN INQUIRIES: Similar iuc{uiries into defective children made in America, and on Continent, to that conducted by committee appointed by the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, (Galton) 5963-4. FOREIGN SYSTEMS: Of education of feeble-minded children, Appendix A. FROEBEL INSTITUTE : Training given to teachers of feeble-minded, (Cooper) 3526. Certificate should bo accoptsd as qualification of assistant teacher, 4:3. FROE BEL'S GIFTS : (Whemnan) 2762. FURNITURE: For special classes, (Kerr) 636; (When-man) 2791-6, 2880-2; (Major) 4626-7, 4781; (Martin) 4936-7; (Da Port) 6968; (B) 12 ^. 63 (4). And fittings cost in Loudon, special classes, \l. per head, (Chard) 1358. GALTON, Sir DOUGLAS: Inquiry made into defective children by committee appointed by the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, 5946 and 6010-1. This inquiry conducted by Dr. Warner, 5047-60. Inquiry resulted in formation of Childhood Society, 6961-2. Similar inquiries in America and on Continent, 5953-4. Dr. Warner's tests, their ultimate object, 6944; ambiguity of nerve signs employed therein, and furthei' inquiry desired by trained persons, so as to arrive at a certain system of discriminating children naturallj' capable, but suifcringi'rom faulty nurture, from children irremediably incajDable, 6955-77, 5986-6004, 6016-.37. Laboratory to )jc opened at University College for physiological psycholog}^ under Professor Sully, might be used for training teachers of the feeble- minded, 5978-82. Medical officer required to advise Education Depart- ment, 6983-6038. Dr. Warner's method of examination; his signs not new, but his system consists in co-relation of signs previously known, 6039-48, 6016-8. Feeble-minded children should not be placed in barracks, 6006-9, 6050. GAMES : ■ Required in addition to physical exercises, (Hohn) 7756-62,7770-85. Suggested by teachers, (B) 15. GARDENS : Children have none at Darenth, (Walmsley) 4159-64. GASKELL, Mr. G. PENN, Secretary of the National Society for the Employment of Epileptics . Epileptic children: obstacles to their education ^ serious cases camiot properly be taught in ordinary schools, 4338-42, 4403-5.: Number of epileptic children estimated al, 1,200 in En!;-hiiid requiring special homes, 43-14-52, 4397, . 4508-10.