Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter one An introduction -- Slow learners -- Diagnosis and assessment -- Causes of handicap -- Treatment -- The concept of placement, follow-up and outcome -- Research -- Conclusion -- Chapter two Classification and causation -- The use and abuse of classification -- Prevalence -- Inheritance and environment -- Genetic conditions -- Environmental damage -- Chapter three Assessment -- Introduction -- Form of assessment -- Potential v. functioning level -- Tests of cognition -- Educational tests -- Social assessment -- Personality -- Motor development -- Problems of assessment -- Chapter four Psychological growth in the handicapped -- Introduction -- Cognitive growth -- Optimum v. critical growth periods -- Compensatory growth and enriched environment -- Growth in specific cognitive area -- Social growth -- Conclusions -- Chapter five Habilitation techniques -- Introduction -- Early and later learning -- Principles of learning -- Summary -- Chapter six Skills for social living -- The range of social education -- Development and education in the early years -- Play in handicapped children -- Eating, dressing and related skills -- Social Educaton Siklls for the older child -- Reading skills -- Number concepts -- Travel skills -- Other social skills -- Equipment and apparatus -- Chapter seven Vocational education -- Vocational needs -- Training procedures -- Work training -- Causes of vocational success and failure -- Dealing with the problems -- Placement and follow-up services -- Chapter eight The family and home-living training -- The handicapped child in the family -- Working with the family -- Parental relief -- Parent training and the child -- Home or institution - ordinary class or special school