Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since last winter when young (33), heavy-set Dr. Kabat began treating such spastic cases, as a Saturday afternoon sideline in his front parlor, his clinic has grown until it now takes all his time. His eight therapists and 50 patients have crowded his wife and three children right out of the house...
...Kabat clinic a patient is given four doses of the drug daily and an hour of specialized muscular re-education much like that for polio cases. Treatment takes from six months to a year, and costs $200 to $250 a month. Improvement is apparently retained. Possibilities vary with the extent of brain damage, but most of Dr. Kabat's patients have improved-the speechless have begun to talk, the trembling have learned to eat with a steady hand, walk with a sure step...
Arnold Gesell's best friends are children. For 20 years at Yale's Clinic of Child Development he and his associates have looked (through one-way-vision screens) and listened while unsuspecting youngsters slept, ate, talked, learned and played. They know the children better than their own parents...
...published his 22nd book, this time on children of school age.*The Child from Five to Ten (with Dr. Frances L. Hg; Harper, $4) is a composite picture of 50 children of "high average or superior" intelligence from comfortably fixed families. Most of the youngsters went from the Clinic's guidance nursery to elementary public school. Dr. Gesell intends their behavior-biographies as rough guides for parents and teachers of the Five to Ten group. But he warns: "Every child has an individual pattern of growth, unique to him ... he travels by his own tailor-made time schedule...
...many U.S. parents' Dr. Gesell's Infant and Child in the Culture of Today (1943) is now a child-care handbook. Thousands more saw the MARCH OF TIME Life with Baby, filmed at the Yale Clinic...