Identifier: mentaldefectives00virg (find matches)
Title: Mental defectives in Virginia: a special report of the State board of charities and corrections to the General assembly of nineteen sixteen on weak-mindedness in the state of Virginia, together with a plan for the training, segregation and prevention of the procreation of the feeble-minded
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Virginia. State Board of Charities and Corrections Walter E. Fernald State School. Howe Library
Subjects: People with mental disabilities Criminals
Publisher: Richmond : D. Bottom, superintendent of public printing
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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elpless.Middle-Grade; an adult with mentality of normal child one year old; feeds self anything.High-Grade; adult with mentality of normal child two years old; eats discriminatingly. Imbecile. .Low-Grade; an adult with mentality of normal child three orfour years old; plays a little; tries to help. Middle-Grade; an adult with mentality of normal child five yearsold; can perform only the simplest tasks. High-Grade; an adult with mentality of normal child six or sevenyears old; can do little house errands such as wash-ing dishes and dusting. Moron ... .Low-Grade; an adult with mentality of normal child eight or nineyears old; can scrub, mend, care for room, makebed, etc. Mental Defectives in Virginia Middle-Grade; an adult with mentality of child ten years old;can do regular work; uses tools. High-Grade-, an adult with mentality of child eleven or twelveyears old; can do complicated work such as caring foranimals, using machinery, but cannot plan. MORON HIGH GRADEIMBECILE MEDIUMIMBECILE
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LOW GRADEIMBECILE IDIOT STEPS IN MENTAL DEVEL-OPMENT.Where they stumble—the limitof development of each type.(Reprinted from the sur-vey of Oct. 11-13.) The Binet-Simon Measuring Scale for Intelligence. This Scale, which was originated about twelve years ago by Binet andSimon, two celebrated French psychologists, consists of a series of gradedquestions, or tests, by which mental development may be measured. Itwas standardized by Binet on the children of the middle class of France,and when introduced in the United States, was adapted for American useby Dr. H. H. Goddard, of Vineland, N. J. Dr. Goddard says of the Scale: No one should be surprised that the 10 State Board Charities and Corrections Binet-Simon Measuring Scale for Intelligence has met with criticism andopposition. It is doubtful if even its most ardent advocates read it overfor the first time without feeling that it must be impossible for such ascale to be reliable; and it is only after repeated trials and continual dis-

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