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and conducted a special class and clinical examinations; indeed, all the courses offered by the department of education at the summer session, with two exceptions, fell within the field of modern clinical psychology. Colorado State Teachers College demonstrated the position which this work has attained by offering a one-week's course on growth and retardation as a part of its general course prescribed for all students. In addition, lectures on exceptional children were given to special sections by four different instructors. At Columbia University a course was offered in pathological psychology and one on the psychology of childhood and exceptional children. At Cornell University a course in mental and physical tests for school children might be said to be related to this work. Harvard University offered a course on the psychology of the abnormal; the University of Montana offered several courses on exceptional children, one of them by Miss Morrison, a consulting school psychologist of Hibbing, Minn. The University of Washington, Seattle, offered a course on the education of exceptional children; Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, offered a course on abnormal, backward, and feeble-minded children. The following list of the courses at all institutions of learning in this country which offer instruction on the psychology and pedagogy of exceptional children has been prepared because of the assistance which it may be expected to afford teachers in learning what kind of instruction may be secured. As far as possible the effort has been made to list all courses by title, indicating the number of hours and whether offered to college, graduate, or summer-school students. Where it is not otherwise stated, one hour means one hour a week, or one hour a day during the summer session of six weeks.

COURSES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY AND PEDAGOGY OF EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN.

Bryn Mawr College: Graduate school

Psychology and treatment of deficient and unusual children...

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Training class for observation (9 to 12 daily), equivalent to..

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University of Cincinnati: College-

Mental and physical tests..

2

College of the City of New York: Extension courses for teachers-

Psychology and education of exceptional children (hours as arranged).

State Teachers College of Colorado: Summer school, 1913–

Growth and retardation, in general course.

Lectures on exceptional children-

Problems of the feeble-minded child....

Clinical psychology...

Backward children not feeble-minded.

Other phases of the subject..

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Columbia University:

College and Graduate School-

The psychology and education of exceptional children.

Neurology and psychiatry.

Summer School

Pathological psychology.

Psychology of childhood..

Psychology of exceptional children.

Cornell University:

College and Graduate School

Education of exceptional children.

Mental development.

Experimental study of school children.

Summer School

Mental and physical tests for school children, equivalent to..

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University of Montana:

College and Graduate School

Experiments with mental measurements (half year)..

Hours,

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Laboratory course on tests of intelligence, equivalent to..

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Seminar on supervision and administration of schools and classes for defectives.....

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Seminar on social aspects of mental defectiveness.

Practical work in manual art for defectives..........

Administrative and social aspects of the special class.

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Orthogenic practice B, observation of special class instruction....

Social factors of juvenile efficiency....

For college students only

Growth and retardation.....

College and Graduate School

The exceptional child (one term)...................

The training and treatment of the exceptional child (one term)...

Graduate School only

Mental defects...

Clinical methods..

University of Pittsburgh: 2

Undergraduate and graduate courses

Social psychology (3 credits).

Social psychology and education (3 credits).

Clinical psychology and study of exceptional children (4 credits).

Educational psychology (6 credits).

The care and treatment of exceptional children (2 credits).

Psychoeducational pathology and educational therapeutics (2 credits).
The psychological clinic (by arrangement).

Undergraduate courses only

Abnormal psychology (3 credits).

Defective and delinquent children (3 credits).

Supplemental study in abnormal or advanced general psychology (1

credit).

Elementary child study (4 credits).

Summer School (10 weeks)

Abnormal mental conditions (one-half term)..

Clinical tests and measurements (one-half term).

The psychological clinic (one-half term)...............

Manu-mental and industrial work for the backward, feeble-minded, and insane.

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In 1913 no special class was held, but such classes will be conducted in 1914 and thereafter, probably as during regular academic year.

*Three credits equal to about one hour elsewhere.

University of Washington, Seattle:

College

Psychology of exceptional children (half year)...
Tests and measurements (half year)..

Summer School

Education of exceptional children.............

University of Wisconsin:

College

Mental tests, laboratory....

Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio:

Summer School

Normal, backward, and feeble-minded children........

Yale University:

Graduate School only-

Hygiene of child development (half year).

Norms of development (half year)..................

Backward, defective, and delinquent children in the public school...... Clinical and research course (limited to advanced students)....... The Training School at Vineland, N. J.:

Summer School

Hours.

3

Studying and observing in the classrooms (number of hours not stated). Examining, testing, and studying children individually (number of hours not stated).

Lectures, quizzes, and assigned reading (number of hours not stated).

TABLE I-Cities reporting provision for exceptional children for first time.

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