Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...child delights in pulling girls' hair and pinching his neighbors, he may just be exhibiting some undeveloped "heman" tendencies and nothing more. But then again, such actions may need careful psychological treatment, which is the case with many youngsters who are brought to the attention of the Psycho-Educational Clinic at Harvard...
Walter F. Dearborn, professor of Education and director of the clinic, specializes mainly in problems of reading. Practical work in that field is being demonstrated at College in the Freshman Romedial Reading courses that are being given to more than 60 members of the Class...
Attacking the problem scientifically, the clinic uses the following method of increasing reading ability: a paragraph of material is shown on the screen. Then it is repeated in short flashes of word-groupings, until the paragraph has been seen, not in its entirety, but as a collection of word-groupings...
...clinic maintains that normal people read in word-groupings and not by looking at individual letters. To prove this, they have a machine that flicks short phrases into sight for the subject to read. For example, a sentence like "Take the box" can easily be comprehended without being read letter for letter. But a smaller number of letters, "Xsn Psyfg," flashed before the subject in the same split-second would not register on his mind since it arouses no associational image...
...prove better that it's the grouping rather than the actual letters that is seen by the normal reader, the Clinic sometimes asks what author the phrase "Washout at Irving" would represent, and most people attribute it to the originator of Ichabod Crane. Likewise, "Palcum towder," and Cixxcixati," would all probably be indistinguished from the real words, if flashed on the screen quickly...