Word: bray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bray has graduated to the nursery for children aged three to eight, and many of her former charges have graduated with her. For this older group she has organized rhythmic games (hand-clapping and singing). She has led a pitiful procession of the mentally lame, the halt and the spastic to the colony's canteen, a whole block and a half away, for a treat of ice cream. "We had never seen anything like that happen before," said a fellow worker. "Everyone talked about it for days...
...Helen Bray was an attendant at California's Pacific Colony State Hospital for retarded children for five years before she decided to take the exam for psychiatric technician. When she did, she placed first. Thereupon, Technician Bray got charge of a sprawling cottage housing 100 youngsters aged one to three...
Half the children were strapped in their cribs to keep them from hurting themselves. "Detail girls" (older patients able to do simple chores) worked on an assembly-line basis: one did nothing but change diapers, another scrubbed floors. Mrs. Bray unstrapped the youngsters and took them out of their cribs. Then she repealed the assembly line and put one girl in full charge of three children. "That's the way it's done in families," she said. "You don't have one person just washing diapers, another feeding the baby...
Slowly Mrs. Bray began to get results. The detail girls, once bored by their jobs, began to take a pride in their charges and to compete among themselves. The youngsters began to learn about group life...
...Helen Bray feels that she is getting reward enough when a mongoloid child reaches out his hand for her to touch, or another, usually inert, nods his head to her. But last week, 37-year-old Helen Bray got a special reward. Flanked by her husband, son and small daughter, she stood in the hospital's dining room to receive $500 given by the National Association for Mental Health to the "aide of the year to the mentally retarded...