Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When his fifth-grade teacher despaired of ever teaching him to read or write, the boy was sent to the clinic school of Dr. Grace M. Fernald at the University of California at Los Angeles. His first day there he learned to write and recognized 14 words. In ten months he was back in school, able to read and write as well as his classmates...
...years at the clinic school, kindly, frowzy Grace Fernald has treated hundreds of thousands of such cases of "word blindness." Her only requirements: that pupils be of normal intelligence and that their parents leave them at the clinic until the cure is complete. In two months to two years, she has usually been able to bring their reading ability up to their mental age level...
Touch & Go. Grace Fernald is one of the pioneers of a latter-day science called remedial reading. Her "kinesthetic method" works on the theory that reading difficulties occur most frequently in people who lack the ability to summon up a mental picture of the way a word looks. She finds that women have more visual ability than men, and that word blindness is 60 times more common among...
Last week Grace Fernald donned her bulky hearing aid, adjusted her glasses and began her last summer of teaching at U.C.L.A. Now 69, she has retired as professor of psychology but will stay on at the clinic school, using her new leisure to gather up the research strewn about her office, and to expound her theories of education. She believes, among other things, that "there are too many women teachers. They are ruining our educational system...
...good Catholic would attribute such statistics to the grace of God. But to make its members serve as instruments of God's grace, the Roman Catholic Church enjoins strict attention to hard work and know-how. A testament to both is a recently published compendium of the most successful proselyting techniques-Winning Converts (P. J. Kenedy & Sons; $3). Edited by the Rev. John A. O'Brien of the University of Notre Dame, it may give many a pointer to evangelizing Protestants as well as to Catholic priests and laymen...