Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 28 February 1957 — Page 2

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Exceptional Children Educational Problem

By LOUIS CASSELS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON <UP» — Hidden handicaps may prevent an intelligent child from learning to read or write. These handicaps, which educators call “learning blocks," may be physical or psychological. When parents and teachers fail to recognize their symptoms, a child is unjustly labelled as ignorant, lazier recalcitrant. Learning blocks can be overcome. sometimes quite easily, when they are accurately diag- —

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nosed and properly treated. Authority for these statements is Mrs. Marion Kingsbury, director of Washington's Remedial Education Center. This privately supported institution is one of the nation’s oldest and most respected diagnostic clinics for children with educational problems. Mrs. Kingsbury said in an interview that there are six broad types of learning blocks that often appear in children of average or above-average intelligence. Two of the most common are poor eyesight and poor hearing. “Many a child is falling behind '■—'f — - ■ ■- -

in his schoolwork today because he simply can’t see or hear what's going on,” Mrs. Kingsbury said. “Unless they are quite acute, these handicaps are often unrecognized by parents and teachers." Many Are Immature ' Even harder to detect is a difficulty that Mrs. Kingsbury calls “cross dominance.” She explained that most right-handed people sight with their right eye; left-handed people with their left eye. But some children are all mixed up; They sight with their right eye, but use their left hand to eat or draw. This makes it unusually hard for them to master the left-to-right direction of English reading and writing. They give a clue to their problem if they persist for a long period in reading “was”

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for “saw.” "no” for "on,” and often write letters and numbers backwards. Probably the one greatest source of learning blocks, Mrs. Kingsbury said, is “immaturity." “Many perfectly normal children mature slowly and just aren’t set for first grade work until they’re 7 or older." she said. Immaturity may be physical—the child is not yet able to make the fine visual and audial distinctions involved in recognizing letters and their sounds. Or it may be emotional in that he has not developed enough self-control or a long enough span of attention to get along with other children. Mrs. Kingsburg said that closely related to immaturity is a type of psychological block a child .develops when his parents put too much pressure on him to succeed. Can Be Corrected “The parental demands may never be expressed in words, but the child senses from adult moods and tones of voice that he is not living up to what mother and dad expect of him. He reacts by developing an acute fear of failure. He becomes so frantically anxious to do well in school that he can’t learn to read at all.” The sixth category of learning block,’ Mrs. Kingsbury said, might be described as the consequences of neglecting one or more of the first five. “The fact that the child is falling behind in his schoolwork becomes the main source of his anxiety. Reading becomes a challenge that he feels he cannot meet. He dreads any act of speaking or writing that will reveal his inadequacy. He invents his own ‘coverup’ system—he cuts up in class and pretends he just doesn't care about learning to read." Mrs. Kingsbury concluded: “Most learning blocks can be overcome by proper glasses or hearing aids; by remedial reading instruction, either in special

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Committee Favors Interest Increase To Boost Interest On Savings Bonds WASHINGTON IIP) — The House Ways and Means Committee today approved the Treasury Department’s request for authority to raise to 3¥« per cent the interest rate on government savings bonds purchased on and after Feb. 1. The interest rate now is 3 per cent. The treasury wants to make the bonds more attractive to purchasers to bolster- sagging sales. The committee voted to give the Treasury discretionary authority to raise the interest rate on series E and H bonds to as much as 3Ms per cent. If the legislation is approved by Congress and signed by President Eisenhower the treasury would be able to put into operation its announced plan of boost- ' ing the interest rate to 3*4 per cent retroactive to bonds purchased on or after Feb. 1. The Treasury had requested dis- ; cretionary authority to raise the ’ rate as high as 4¥< per cent in the 1 future if it decided further sweetening was necessary to promote sales. i Robin Hood SOUTH EGREMENT, Mass. — hunting with a bow and arrow, Thomas M. Sindler crept to with- ’ in 20 yards of a 165-pound buck, ' shot one arrow and lugged home ! the venison. . classes or with individual tutoring; and by counseling of parents and teachers to help them understand | and cope with the child’s particular problems.”

Society Items lor today’s publication must be phoned in by 11 a. m. (Saturday 8:30 a.m.) Phone 3-2121 GWEN HTLYARD THURSDAY Our Lady of. Victory discussion group, Mrs. Herman J. Miller, 7:30 p.m. Holy Family study club, Mrs. Joe Kellejr, 8:30 p.m. St. Ambrose study club, Mrs. Jacob Heimann, 7:30 p.m. D.A.V. auxiliary, D.A.V. hall, 7:30 p.m. Women of the Moose, Moose home. Officers at 7:30 p.m.; formal initiation at 8 p.m. Zion Lutheran sharing Christ callers training meeting, at the church, 7 p.m. Little Flower study dub, Mrs. Ed Berling, 7:30 p.m. Ruralistic study club, Mrs. FranCircles one and four of the First. Methodist church, Mrs. Gail Baughman, 624 North Second street, 2 p.m. ' Monroe W.C.T.U., Mrs. Clifford Essex, 7 p.m. Order of the .Eastern Star, Masonic hall, 7:30 p.m. Decatur Emblem dub. Elks home, 8 p.m. St. Ann Study club, Mrs. Ed Keller, 1116 West Moifroe, 7:30 p.m. Dorcas drcle of the Methodist church, Mrs. L. A. Cowens, 1:30 p.m, FRIDAY K. of C. Ladies auxiliary, K. of C. hall, 8:15 p.m. Our Lady of Good Counsel study club, Mrs. Herman Alberding, 8 p.m. Work and Win class of Trinity E.U.B. church, at the church. 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY Pleasant Grove Y.P.M.8., Emil, Shifferly, 8 p. m. MONDAY Sacred Heart rtudy club, Mrs. Louis Laurent, 8. p.m. — Ladies Missionary association of the Mt. Zion U. B. church, Mrs. Irvin Fuelling, 7:30 p.m. Ladies auxiliary of the Decatur Fire Department, Preble restaurant, 8 p.m. V.F.W. Ladies auxiliary, V.F.W. home, 8 p.m. Decatur Camera club, Youth and Community center, 7:30 p.m. Happy Homemakers home demonstration club, Mrs. Gale Cook, 7:30 p.m. Research club, Mrs. R. T. Myers. 2:30 p, m. Adams county chorus at Farm Bureau building Monroe, 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY Eagles auxiliary, Eagles hall, 8 p.m. Eta Tau Sigma, Miss Helen Wellman, 8 p.m. Gals and Pals home demonstration club, Pleasant Mills schools, 7:30 p.m. St. Catherine study club, Mrs. Bob Meyer, 8 p.m. School For Church Ushers At Berne BERNE — A unique type of school for church ushers has been announced by the men’s fellowship of the First Mennonite church of this place. The school will take place here March 14, 15 and 16 and will be held in the evenings of these dates, from 7 to 9:30 o’clock with a fellowship break at mid point in the evening. Ushers and laymen in Berne and surrounding cities are invited to attend. The school will be under the direction of E. M. Hosman, dean of the School for church ushers, Omaha, Neb. He is the dean of adult education at the University of Omaha, and founded this service to churches in 1944. Howard Culp of Berne is the registrar for this school.

Sen. Langer Still Is Seriously 111 WASHINGTON (UP) — Sen. William Lahger (R-N.D.) remains in serious condition at Bethesda

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Naval Hospital, his office reported today. Langer entered the hospital earlier this month for treatment of pneumonia and pleurisy. His office said the senator s condition was unchanged from Wednesday.