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Families of Dull Children

Part III.—Social selection by family type

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Zena Stein  and
Mervyn Susser
Zena Stein
Affiliation:
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Manchester
Mervyn Susser
Affiliation:
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Manchester
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In this paper we have tried to demonstrate some of the ways in which social selection operates in the ascertainment of dull and subnormal children. In England backward children, by the terms of the Education Act of 1944, may be referred by their teachers for medical examination and “ascertained” as educationally subnormal, thereby qualifying for special educational treatment. Alternatively, they may be classed as mental defectives (or now, severely subnormal) and excluded from the schools altogether.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 106 , Issue 445 , October 1960 , pp. 1304 - 1310
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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