Identifier: cu31924003455551 (find matches)
Title: Care and education of crippled children in the United States
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Solenberger, Edith Gertrude (Reeves) 1886-
Subjects: Children with disabilities
Publisher: New York, Survey associates, inc.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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\5\ HAND WORK AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING study have usually been children so far paralyzed that no indus-trial training was possible. However, one boy who had lost botharms in a trolley accident was brought to our attention and effortswere made to find an opening for him as a test of the possibilitiesfor such cases, but no place could be found. For instance, tele-graph operating was seriously considered. It is not taught in anyof the New York institutions for cripples, but the educationaldirector of the school of telegraphy at the East Side Young MensChristian Association came to the conclusion that the boy couldoperate the key by wearing some simple apparatus attached toone of his stumps. But on expert advice, it was decided that suchtraining would be useless because the boy would almost certainlybe unable to hold a position in competition with others not soafflicted. He could do only the mechanical things- which hisappliance made possible and for which he had been especiallytrained. An

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