The Education of Slow Learning Children

A. E. Tansley, R. Gulliford

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781138586130
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429997938
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Originally published in 1960. The authors of this text examine ways in which both ordinary schools and special needs schools can further develop suitable education for pupils with special needs, including improved post-school guidance. This title aims to provide a guide to teachers in deciding the aims of their teaching and to assist in the planning of their teaching methods.

INDEX

Page numbers in bold type indicate where the topic is chiefly discussed.

1. affection, 47–8. 50–1, 53–6, 61, 163
2. after-care, 229, 235, 238–43
3. aggression, 50, 61–2, 168, 178
4. Alexander Performance Scale, 36–7, 246
5. anxiety, 49, 60, 62, 79, 123, 230
6. aphasia, 78
7. arithmetic, 14, 38, 41, 148–65, 204, 206–7, 229, 232
8. art, 69, 125–6, 172–7
9. articulation, 76–8, 80, 107, 135
10. ascertainment, 15–22, 41
11. assessment of progress, 96
12. assignments, 96, 137, 233–4
13. ataxia, 80
14. athetosis, 80
15. Atkinson, E. J., 218, 239
16. attainments, 20, 38, 44, 61, 86; tests, 96–7, 247–8
17. attention, 40, 169
18. attitudes, 51, 92, 140, 223; to self, 58, 71, 89
19. audiologist, 20
20. audiometric examination, 20, 73, 78
21. auditory discrimination, 76, 93, 120, 126

1. backwardness, 1–22
   incidence, 4–6
   types of, 7
   see ESN children
2. behaviour, 50–1, 63 ff., 225–7
   observation of, 56–9
   patterns of, 50–1
   60–1, of brain-injured, 83–4
3. Bijou, S. W., 38
4. Binet, A., 3, 27, 36
5. birth injury, 81
6. Bloomster, M., 133
7. Bossio, V., 38, 63
8. Bowlby,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• I. Special Educational Treatment
• II. Intellectual Development
• III. Emotional Development
• IV. Physical Conditions
• V. Aims, Principles and Organization
• VI. Language
• VII. Reading, Spelling and Written Expression
• VIII. Number
• IX. Creative Work
• X. The Growth of Knowledge and Awareness
• XI. Practical Subjects; Physical Education; Religious Education
• XII. Education for Social Competence
• Appendix A: Intelligence and Attainment Tests
• Appendix B: List of Reading Books
• Index