Abstract
Aims of the Study
1. To investigate the incidence of educabie Spastic Paralysis cases in Dunedin city and its environs, an area with the same boundaries as those of the Crippled Children society, and to ascertain to what extent their educational needs have been and are being met. While not accounting for the institutionalized cases, (those at Seacliffc Asylum), the study does include a few subnormals from special schools, because to some degree these too can be educated.
2. To make clear the necessity for the term 'educational significance' appearing in the title and throughout this thesis, and thus to justify the claim that the Spastic child is making, or should make on the skill services of the community.
3. To give a general outline of a scheme which would ensure correct scientific treatment for the educable Spastic child.
4. To include a short summary of the work being done in Auckland,(which the writer investigated last year with a view not of making a comparison but of giving a general indication of the position throughout the country; and with this to include brief notes on the work of Sister Kenny in Australia, and of eminent Spastic experts in U.S.A. where an outstanding lead has been given in this work.