Word: children
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other children, the crew and three nurses, were dead. Miraculously, Isaac had suffered little more than a black eye and a sprained arm. The child smiled at the lumberjack and said in halting French: "I have come here to go to school. Take me to the school...
...tombstones, little now remains to show that the town was settled by Americans. Of the descendants of the original settlers, only the family of Dr. James R. Jones, a young dentist-farmer, clings to the old ways. "Doutor Jaime," his black-haired wife Judith (nee McKnight) and their two children still speak English at home; Doutor Jaime's brother, who married an Italian girl, speaks it only haltingly, "because I have no practice...
...were unfit for normal school life. Despite tireless coaching at home, eight-year-old Larry had only a halting vocabulary of no words; 13-year-old Donald could barely dress himself. They were tragic "in-betweens," not quite eligible to enter even Denver's special schools for retarded children, yet not so hopeless that they had to be shut away in a state institution. Said stouthearted Joe, after his last turndown: "If there's no school 'that can help my kids, by golly I'll build one myself...
Last winter Laradon Hall opened its doors with but one entrance requirement: the ability to learn, however slowly. Soon 17 children came-most of them thin and staring youngsters suffering from nervous instability and poor muscular control. With the children came volunteer teachers: an ex-G.I. from the University of Denver, a former schoolmarm whose own son was born mentally defective, a young Negro woman who was studying psychology, one Ph.D. candidate and two undergraduates from the Denver university...
...Please Close the Door." But most of the children had deeper trouble. The most clearly retarded ones had to be taught to wash and feed themselves, and to understand such simple instructions as "Please close the door." For them there were courses in handicrafts, exercises to improve muscle coordination. For those less retarded but held back by emotional disturbances, e.g., a ten-year-old who vomited whenever he became excited, there were courses in reading and writing, and patient guidance...