Traveling clinic preschool psychometric test files, 1938-1942.

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Traveling clinic preschool psychometric test files, 1938-1942.

In 1920 the Dept. of Mental Diseases and the Dept. of Education planned for the organization of outpatient clinics in nine districts of Massachusetts to diagnose children in accordance with the provisions of St 1919, c 277, requiring school committees to provide special education to mentally retarded students within the public school system. Staff of the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded (later the Walter E. Fernald School) supervised traveling clinics at public schools and administered psychometric tests of mental age and intelligence quotient (IQ) of students. Traveling clinic preschool psychometric test files contain tests administered to children in Waltham schools.

1.25 cubic ft. (1 record center carton)

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Walter E. Fernald State School

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The Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children conducted at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind from 1848 was incorporated by Massachusetts as the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth in 1850. It was renamed Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded in 1883 and Walter E. Fernald State School in 1925. From the description of Movement of population log, <1920-1977> (bulk <1960-1977>). (Unknown). WorldCat re...