Word: hooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group for whom most can be done, and least is now being done, according to Putnam and Hood, are a majority of the brain-injury victims, i.e., those who have been crippled by such things as blows, encephalitis, or a sustained high fever in infancy. Their plight is often worse, in a way, than that of the mentally retarded, because they know they are different and yet cannot help their failures and seizures...
...Saint." Billy's parents went deep into debt, taking him to psychologists, psychiatrists and neurosurgeons (he had one brain operation, to no result). When they could borrow no more, their family doctor called Oreste Eslick Hood, director of Los Angeles' Institute for Child Study. Psychologist Hood said simply: "Bring the child to me." Billy's parents took him to Hood's special training school. There, for nine months, Hood lived and worked with Billy. Today, Billy is attending public school. Says his mother simply: "Mr. Hood is a saint...
Drugs & Understanding. Bronx-born, California-trained Psychologist Hood, 40, saw the difference between the truly retarded and the salvageable brain-injured when he was hired to handle a class of Chinese "morons" in San Francisco. Most, he found, were not retarded at all, but their natural intelligence could not function normally because of their injuries. After he met Dr. Putnam (who has done as much as any man living to develop the use of drugs which now control epilepsy in two-thirds of its victims), Hood took over an abandoned mansion on West Adams Boulevard and started his special boarding...
...school has no gates or bars, no locks on the doors, and Hood leaves his cashbox unlocked. Yet his cases include juvenile delinquents convicted of larceny...
...Putnam prescribes drugs to control seizures; Hood adds the ingredients of love, patience and understanding. There are no punishments. Punishing a brain-injured delinquent, says Hood, "is like punishing a blind boy for tripping...