The Mentally Retarded.

The article discusses the two types of mental retardation and their need for different curricula and classroom management. Intellectual subnormality represents a statistical deviation from the psychometric norm for the test employed at the time; while, clinical mental deficiency is a behavior syndrome or clinical symptom-complex established from multiple diverse data and is associated with correspondingly subnormal academic achievement. The admittance of intellectually subnormal children to classroom instruction and its continuance is influenced solely by their academic aptitudes and progress. It has been shown that intellectually subnormal can best be cared for in a slow in a slow learning class at the junior high school or senior high school level.