1st Edition

Education and the Handicapped 1760 - 1960

By D.G. Pritchard Copyright 1963
    258 Pages
    by Routledge

    258 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1998. This is Volume VIII of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. During the nineteenth century and part of the twentieth the children now known as disabled or with accessibility needs were termed physically defective and mentally defective; the schools that they and the blind and the deaf attended were frequently called institutions; the education they received bore the name of instruction. This book is the story of the advance in opinion and outlook from 1760 to 1960, which brought about the change from instruction to education, from institution to school, and from mentally defective to those with special needs, that the book sets out to tell. Written in 1963.

    Chapter 1 Earliest Provision for the Handicapped; Chapter 2 Eighteenth Century: The First English Schools; Chapter 3 The Period of Experiment: I. Institutional Education of the Blind and Deaf; Chapter 4 The Period of Experiment: II. Methods of Teaching the Blind to Read; Chapter 5 The Period of Experiment: III. Developments in the Education of the Feeble-Minded and Physically Handicapped; Chapter 6 The Period of Transition: I. Changes in the Education of the Blind; Chapter 7 The Period of Transition: II. School Board Classes for the Deaf and Blind; Chapter 8 The Period of Transition: III. The Return of the Oral Education of the Deaf; Chapter 9 The Period of State Intervention: I. The Royal Commission on the Blind and Deaf; Chapter 10 The Period of State Intervention: II. School Board Classes for the Mentally Handicapped; Chapter 11 The Period of State Intervention: III. The DePart mental Committee on Defective and Epileptic Children; Chapter 12 The Period of Growth: I. Advances in the Education of the Physically Handicapped; Chapter 13 The Period of Growth: II. Advances in the Health Services; Chapter 14 The Period of Growth: III. Advances in the Education of the Mentally Handicapped; Chapter 15 The Period of Growth: IV. Advances in the Education of the Blind and Deaf; Chapter 16 The Period of Consolidation: I. The 1944 ACT; Chapter 17 The Period of Consolidation: II. The Present;

    Biography

    D.G. Pritchard