DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF EDUCATION BULLETIN, 1918, No. 10 PUBLIC SCHOOL CLASSES FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN BY EDITH REEVES SOLENBERGER ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE PROCURED FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D. C. AT 10 CENTS PER COPY Letter of transmittal... Introduction.... History of day-school classes. Admission to special classes. CONTENTS. Special buildings for cripples.. Transportation..... Food... Fresh Air..... Surgical and medical supervision.. Hours of sessions.. Mental progress. Discipline... Classes for mentally deficient cripples. Organization of classes. Educational aims... Provision for cripples in certain cities: New York.. Chicago... Philadelphia. Cleveland.. Detroit.... Baltimore. Private day schools for cripples............. Appendix A-Suggestions to teachers in small cities and in country schools. Appendix B-Record cards used in New York...... Page. 5 7 9 10 12 14 16 17 18 19 24 25 27 27 28 29 34 37 40 42 43 41 45 48 49 52 3 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, December 26, 1917. SIR: Although there are in the United States many thousands of crippled children, probably as many as there are of deaf and blind, little attention has been given them as a class. They are not even enumerated in the decennial Federal census. While special provision for the deaf and blind children is made in all States and for feeble-minded and incorrigible children in most of the States, few States make any special provision for the care and education of crippled children, and in only half a dozen cities are there separato schools or classes for them, and in the schools of most cities, towns, and rural districts not even suitable seats and desks are provided for them. It is therefore all the more important that what has been done by the public schools of the few cities that have given most attention to this matter be known. The manuscript transmitted herewith on public school classes for crippled children is the result of a study made at my request by Edith Reeves Solenberger. I recommend that it be published as a bulletin of the Bureau of Education. Respectfully submitted. The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. P. P. CLAXTON, Commissioner. 5 |