1. Eugenics Goes to School and Other Strange Legacies: Auxiliary Education’s Origins

Abstract

Introduction 3 1 Eugenics Goes to School and Other Strange Legacies: Auxiliary Education’s Origins 11 2 “Inequalities of Children in Original Endowment”: IQ Testing Transforms Auxiliary Education, 1919–1930 52 3 Avoiding “Blunders and Stupid Mistakes”: Auxiliary Education for Adolescents, 1923–1935 85 4 “A Mental Equality Where Physical Equality Has Been Denied”: Sight-Saving, Speech and Hearing, and Orthopaedic Classes, 1920–1945 125 5 The “Remarkable Case of Mabel Helen”: Special-Subject Disabilities and Auxiliary Education, 1930–1945 153 6 Changing Ideas in a Changing Environment: The Impact of Personality Adjustment and Child Guidance 183 Conclusion 202