Describes the use of activity boxes with 43 young children with blindness, deaf-blindness, or severe learning disabilities and visual impairments. Discusses the contribution such boxes make to intellectual development, particularly the development of voluntary hand function from the integration of the primitive grasp-and-release instincts shown by…

A reassessment of schools and education in general from the standpoint of the orthopsychiatrist, this volume attempts to answer a wide variety of questions such as: What does society expect from its educational institutions? What exactly is the educational experience and do we really mean to provide it for children? How can the schools best deal…