Every pedagogically retarded child should receive a psycho-clinical examination to distinguish genuine subnormal development from retardation caused by late entrance, irregular attendance, illness, or poor teaching.¶

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q1 i? Retardation can stem from genuine arrest or subnormal mental development or from factors such as late entrance, transfer, irregular attendance, illness, physical defectiveness, language deficiency, poor teaching, or maladapted courses, so diagnosis must precede treatment. → J. K. W. Wallin 1911

Evidence¶

J. K. W. Wallin 1911¶

J. K. W. Wallin. (1911). The New Clinical Psychology and the Psycho-Clinicist. Part II. The Psychological Clinic and the Public Schools. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://psycnet.apa.org/journal/edu

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The author's normative argument in the section on retardation, listing possible causes: "whether it is the result of late entrance, transfer, irregularity of attendance, illness, physical defectiveness, language deficiency, poor teaching, lack of individual tuition, maladapted courses, indifference". This is an assertion, not a tested result.

"Every retarded child should be given a psycho-clinical examination to determine whether the retardation is a case of genuine arrest or subnormal mental development, or whether it is the result of late entrance, transfer, irregularity of attendance"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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