The most important single volume on the subject. Extensive data on the causes of feeble-mindedness and excellent clinical pictures of all grades of mental defects.
56. G.o.ddard, H. H. _The Kallikak Family._ The Macmillan Company.
(1914.) 121 pages.
An epoch-making study of the hereditary transmission of mental deficiency in a degenerate family.
57. Holmes, Arthur. _The Conservation of the Child._ J. B.
Lippincott Company. (1912.) 345 pages.
Methods of examination and treatment of defective children.
58. Holmes, Arthur. _The Backward Child._ Bobbs-Merrill Company.
(1915.)
A popular treatment of the handling of backward children.
59. Huey, E. B. _Backward and Feeble-Minded Children._ Warwick & York. (1912.) 221 pages.
Devoted mainly to clinical accounts of borderline cases.
60. Lapage, C. P. _Feeble-Mindedness in Children of School Age._ The University Press, Manchester, England. (1911.) 359 pages.
61. Sherlock, E. B. _The Feeble-Minded; A Guide to Study and Practice._ The Macmillan Company. (1911.) 327 pages.
62. Tredgold, A. F. _Mental Deficiency (Amentia)._ Bailliere, Tindall, and c.o.x. London, England. (2d ed. 1914.) 491 pages.
The best medical treatment of the subject.
STUDIES OF THE PROGRESS OF CHILDREN THROUGH THE GRADES
63. Ayres, Leonard P. _Laggards in our Schools._ The Russell Sage Foundation. (1909.) 236 pages.
Interesting and instructive discussion of school r.e.t.a.r.dation and its causes.
64. Blan, Louis B. _A Special Study of the Incidence of r.e.t.a.r.dation._ Teachers College, Columbia University, Contributions to Education, no. 40. (1911.) 111 pages.
Review of the literature and a statistical study of the progress of 4579 children.
65. Keyes, C. H. _Progress Through the Grades of City Schools._ Teachers College, Columbia University, Contributions to Education, no. 42. (1911.) 79 pages.
Important study of the progress of several thousand children.
66. Strayer, George D. _Age and Grade Census of Schools and Colleges._ Bulletin no. 451, U.S. Bureau of Education. (1911.) 144 pages.
Statistics of the age-grade status of the children in 318 cities.
67. See also the _Reports_ of leading school surveys, such as those of New York, Salt Lake City, b.u.t.te, Springfield (Ma.s.s.), Denver, Cleveland, etc.
REFERENCES ON THE SPECIAL CLa.s.s FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN
68. Huey, E. B. "The Education of Defectives and the Training of Teachers for Special Cla.s.ses"; in _Journal of Educational Psychology_ (1913), pp. 545-50.
69. G.o.ddard, H. H. _School Training of Defective Children._ World Book Company. (1914.) 97 pages.
Based on his survey of the treatment of backward children in the schools of New York City.
70. Holmes, W. H. _School Organization and the Individual Child._ The Davis Press, Worcester, Ma.s.sachusetts. (1912.) 211 pages.
A comprehensive account of the efforts which have been made to adjust the school to the capacities of individual children.
71. Maennel, B. _Auxiliary Education._ Translated from the German by Emma Sylvester. Doubleday, Page & Co. (1909.) 267 pages.
72. Van Sickle, J. H., Witmer, L., _and_ Ayres, L. P. _Provision for Exceptional Children in Public Schools._ Bulletin no. 461, U.S. Bureau of Education. (1911.) 92 pages.
73. Shaer, I. "Special Cla.s.ses for Bright Children in an English Elementary School"; in _Journal of Educational Psychology_ (1913), pp. 209-22.
74. Stern, W. "The Supernormal Child"; in _Journal of Educational Psychology_ (1911), pp. 143-48 and 181-90.
A strong plea for special cla.s.ses for superior children.
75. Vaney, V. _Les cla.s.ses pour enfants arrieres._ Bulletin de la Societe libre pour l"etude psychologique de l"enfant (1911), pp. 53-152.
Report of the French National Commission appointed to investigate methods of treatment and training.
76. Witmer, L. _The Special Cla.s.s for Backward Children._ The Psychological Clinic Press, Philadelphia. (1911.) 275 pages.
An account of the special cla.s.s conducted in connection with the University of Pennsylvania Summer School.
LIST OF BINET"S MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE
77. Binet, A. _L"etude experimentale de l"intelligence._ Paris: Schleicher freres. (1903.)
78. Binet, A. "A Propos de la mesure de l"intelligence"; in _Annee psychologique_ (1905), vol. 11, pp. 69-82.
79. Binet, A. _Les enfants anormaux; guide pour l"admission des enfants anormaux dans les cla.s.ses de perfectionnement._ Paris: Colin (1907.)
80. Binet, A. _Comment les inst.i.tuteurs jugent-ils l"intelligence d"un ecolier?_ Bulletin de la Societe libre pour l"etude psychologique de l"enfant (1910), no. 10, pp. 172-82.
81. Binet, A. "Nouvelles recherches sur la mesure du niveau intellectuel chez les enfants d"ecole"; in _Annee psychologique_ (1911), vol. 17, pp. 145-201.
82. Binet, A., _et_ Simon, Th. "Sur la necessite d"etablir un diagnostique scientifique des etats inferieurs de l"intelligence"; in _Annee psychologique_ (1905), vol. 11, pp. 163-90.
83. Binet, A., _et_ Simon, Th. "Methodes nouvelles pour le diagnostique du niveau intellectuel des anormaux"; in _Annee psychologique_ (1905), vol. 11, pp. 191-244.
84. Binet, A., _et_ Simon, Th. "Application des Methodes nouvelles au diagnostique du niveau intellectuel chez des enfants normaux et anormaux d"hospice et d"ecole primaire"; in _Annee psychologique_ (1905), vol. 11, pp. 245-336.