The Education of Retarded and Difficult Children in the Leicester Schools
A Selection of Articles contributed by the Teachers engaged in the Work. Obtainable from Education Offices, Newarke Street, Leicester, 1/6. The comprehensive scheme instituted by the Leicester Education Committee for dealing with its retarded children is well known amongst educationalists, and this account of it written by the teachers themselves will be read with interest?with envious interest on the part of those who work in less fortunate areas.
The volume contains descriptions dealing in detail with methods of teaching, in the Haddenham Road Experimental School, the Duxbury Road Special School, and the Special Classes in various Infants, Junior and Senior Schools. Illustrated, in some cases, with diagrams and sketches.
In the Preface, written by the Committee’s two Educational Psychologists, Dr Catteil and Dr Bridges, it is pointed out that Leicester has been making experiments in the treatment of backward and difficult children over a five year period and the material presented in this first hand account of those experiments is offered as a ” body of suggestive material, presented in a readable form, for the use of all who are striving to solve the educational and social problems of the day.”
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