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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...made during this biennial period definite jjrovision for the training of teachers for the instruction of the feeble-minded. Thus it is now possible to provide the school with teachers trained in the instruction of the feeble-minded children whom the school psychologist has caused to be segregated from the normal children. Before this, the securing of a psychologist was held by some to be impracticable since, through lack of training equipment, it was impossible to provide educational facilities for such groups, even when segregated. Thus in both these lines of work, i. e., juvenile courts and schools, we find, at the end of two years, an awakened appreciation of psychological work where, before, there had been none. Now the effort is not as before, to stimulate interest but, rather, to find the way to procure the psychologist, now a recognized need. Perhaps the accomplishment during the past two years of which we are most proud, certainly one that is going to bring mental defectives in California the greatest boon, is the establishment of the Pacific Colony for the Feeble-minded. The legislature of 1917 appropriated $250,000 toward the purchase of a site and buildings for this purpose, to be located in southern California. Following the appropriation by the legislature, the governor appointed the following board of trustees: Mrs. J. Powers Flint, Los Angeles, president; Mrs. Dane Coolidge of Berkeley, and Mr. Newton Thompson of Alhambra. This board since their appointment has given devoted service to the difficult task of securing, within the appropriation, the required number of acres with sufficient supply of water in a location prescribed by the bill. In making their plans for the future they have brought to the problem such an...