Suggestions for a Teacher’s Private Library

On Exceptional Children

• Ayres, L. P. Laggards in our Schools. The Russell Sage Foundation. (1909.) 236 pages. Treats the amount and causes of school retardation.
• Binet, A., and Simon, Th. Mentally Defective Children. Translated from the French by W. B. Drummond. Longmans, Green & Co. (1914.) 171 pages. Discusses the psychology, pedagogy and medical examination of defectives.
• Binet, A., and Simon, Th. A Method of Measuring the Development of Intelligence in Young Children. Chicago Medical Book Company. (1915.) 82 pages. Authorized translation of Binet’s final instructions for giving the tests.
• Goddard, H. H. Feeble-Mindedness; Its Causes and Consequences. The Macmillan Company. (1913.) 599 pages. The most important single volume on the subject.
• Goddard, H. H. The Kallikak Family. The Macmillan Company. (1914.) 121 pages. A study of the hereditary transmission of mental deficiency in one family.
• Goddard, H. H. School Training of Defective Children. World Book Company. (1914.) 97 pages. Admirable treatment of the entire subject.
• Goddard, H. H. The Criminal Imbecile. The Macmillan Company. (1915.) 157 pages. An analysis of three murderers of borderline intelligence.
• Holmes, Arthur. The Conservation of the Child. J. B. Lippincott Company. (1912.) 345 pages. Methods of examination and treatment of defective children.
• Holmes, Arthur. The Backward Child. The Bobbs-Merrill Co. (1915.) A popular treatment of the subject.
• Holmes, W. H. School Organization and the Individual Child. The Davis Press, Worcester, Massachusetts. (1912) 211 pages. A comprehensive account of methods of adjusting school work to the capacity of the individual child.
• Huey, E. B. Backward and Feeble-Minded Children. Warwick & York. (1912.) 221 pages. Clinical studies of borderline cases.
• Kelynack, T. N. (Editor). Defective Children. John Bale, Sons, and Daniellson, London. (1915.) 447 pages. Written by many authors and devoted to all kinds of physical and mental defects.
• Kuhlmann, F. “A Revision of the Binet-Simon System for Measuring the Intelligence of Children.” Monograph Supplement of Journal of Psycho-Asthenics. (1912.) 41 pages. Contains instructions for use of the Kuhlmann revision.
• Stern, W. The Psychological Method of Measuring Intelligence. Translated from the German by G. M. Whipple. Warwick & York. (1913.) 160 pages.
• Terman, Lyman, Ordahl, Galbreath, and Talbert. The Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Scale for Measuring Intelligence. (1916.) Extended analysis of 1000 tests. Data on the relation of intelligence to school success, social status, etc.
• Terman, Lewis M. The Hygiene of the School Child. Houghton Mifflin Company. (1914.) 417 pages. Devoted to the physical defects of school children.
• Tredgold, A. F. Mental Deficiency (Amentia). Baillière, Tindall & Cox, London. (1914.) 491 pages. The best medical treatment of the subject.
• Whipple, G. M. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests. Warwick & York. Vol. I (1914), 365 pages; vol. II (1915), 336 pages. The best treatment of mental tests other than those of the Binet system.
• Witmer, L. The Special Class for Backward Children. The Psychological Clinic Press, Philadelphia. (1911.) 275 pages. Problems encountered in connection with the special class.

Magazines

• The Training School Bulletin. Published monthly by the Training School, Vineland, New Jersey. Edited by H. H. Goddard and E. R. Johnstone.
• The Psychological Clinic. Published monthly by the Psychological Clinic Press, Philadelphia. Edited by Lightner Witmer.
• The Journal of Delinquency. Published bi-monthly by the Whittier State School, Whittier, California. Edited by Williams, Goddard, Terman, and others.
• The Journal of Psycho-Asthenics. Published quarterly at Faribault, Minnesota. Organ of the American Association for the Study of the Feeble-Minded. Edited by A. C. Rogers and F. Kuhlmann.
• The Journal of Educational Psychology. Published by Warwick & York, Baltimore. Edited by J. Carleton Bell.