 feebleminded" is meant, according to the definition adopted by the American Association for the Study of the Feebleminded, in 1910, "all degrees of mental defect due to arrested or imperfect mental development, as a result of which the person so affected...  The Delinquent - Page 211911Full view - About this book
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1914 - 1024 pages
...years. A person is classed as "feeble-minded" when his intellect is so undeveloped or impaired that he is incapable of competing on equal terms with his normal fellows or managing himself or his affairs with ordinary prudence. There are three classes: Idiots, imbeciles,... | |
 | 1895 - 510 pages
...under favorable circumstances, but is incapable from mental defect existing from birth or an early age of competing on equal terms with his normal fellows...managing himself or his affairs with ordinary prudence". The moron (or feeble-minded in the restricted sense) is a person whose intelligence never goes beyond... | |
 | 1907 - 658 pages
...benefit of such a child that he should be allowed the opportunity of testing whether he is capable of competing on equal terms with his normal fellows...managing himself or his affairs with ordinary prudence. The definition of a " feeble-minded person " is admittedly difficult and has not been got over in the... | |
 | Alfred Frank Tredgold - 1908 - 482 pages
...usually accompany secondary amentia. The question which has to be answered is, Is this person capable of competing on equal terms with his normal fellows, or of managing himself and his affairs with ordinary prudence ? If he be not thus capable, then he is probably suffering from... | |
 | 1911 - 1138 pages
...feeble-minded is used genetically to include ¡ill degrees of mental defect due to arrested or imperfect development as a result of which the person so affected...competing on equal terms with his normal fellows or managing himself or his affairs with ordinary prudence. •_>! The feeble-minded are divided into three... | |
 | 1911 - 962 pages
...favorable circumstances, but is incapable, from mental defect existing from birth or from an early date, of competing on equal terms with his normal fellows,...managing himself or his affairs with ordinary prudence." (b) "An Imbecile. One who by reason of mental defect existing from birth or from an early age is incapable... | |
 | Samuel George Smith - 1911 - 408 pages
...generically to include all degrees of mental defect due to arrested or imperfect development as the result of which the person so affected is incapable...competing on equal terms with his normal fellows or managing himself or his affairs with ordinary prudence." In this statement we see the modern tendency... | |
 | 1911 - 750 pages
...favourable circumstances, but is incapable from mental defect existing from birth or from an early age of competing on equal terms with his normal fellows, or of managing himself or his affairs with ordinal y prudence. The imbecile by reason of similar defect is incapable of earning his own living,... | |
 | 1911 - 754 pages
...1910. This classification follows: 1. The term feeble-minded is to be "used generically to include all degrees of mental defect due to arrested or imperfect mental development as result of which the person so affected is incapable of competing on equal terms with his normal fellows... | |
 | 1911 - 468 pages
...its recent meeting at Lincoln, 111. In brief, "feebleminded" is to be "used generically to include all degrees of mental defect due to arrested or imperfect mental development as result of which the person so affected is incapable of competing on equal terms with his normal fellows... | |
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