A study of the schools for mentally handicapped children conducted by the Sisters of the Poor Child Jesus in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands

The major purpose of this study was to survey a group of schools for mentally handicapped children conducted by one religious congregation in five countries of Western Europe in order to ascertain and interpret specific characteristics and general procedures as well as basic educational principles which affect special education. The writer had a dual intent: (1) to place these schools within their own national setting and so to evaluate them; (2) to bring them into a focus with schools tor mentally handicapped children in the United States, and to point out aspects which seemed common to both... Mehr ...