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...author of these lines is Allan Schenkein, a 39-year-old with an IQ of less than 75 and one of 150,000 Americans who surfer from mongolism or Down's syndrome, a common form of severe retardation (TIME, May 8). Mongoloids are born with 47 chromosomes instead of the normal 46, usually have slanting eyes and small heads, and never grow very tall. Until recently, they were almost invariably put away in institutions, where they languished as near vegetables. What is different about Allan and a growing number of other mongoloids is that they have been lovingly nurtured...
...average student with a 106 IQ, Bremer went out for the junior varsity football team when he was a sophomore at South Division High School. Though he was never more than a bench-warming, third-string guard, he stuck the season out until his mother pressed him to give up the sport. "I told him I wanted him to quit," says Sylvia Bremer, "because it seemed that someone was always picking on him. He was strong and had big muscles, but he was too quiet to give those guys who were picking on him what they deserved." Mrs. Bremer...
...they do, they pass a drum from hand to hand and each tries to say his name while beating out its syllables. Promising results are also being obtained with a behaviorist approach that does not concern itself with the cause of a child's disability or with traditional IQ measurements. It merely rewards positive responses from the child to any kind of lesson. The system seems to work with tokens that the children recognize as symbols of success. The point is to get the child accustomed to learning what he can, whether it is tying shoelaces or writing...
...employees who have relatively low lifetime earnings potential, supporting certain kinds of research, and directing its investments into socially progressive industries. In my opinion, improving the financial position of most graduate students, who rank in the top 2 per cent of the country in social class, race, education, IQ, and the other determinants of earnings potential, is a low priority item. The Teaching Fellows Union should formulate demands that take into account some such sense of priorities. James W. Wetzler Teaching Fellow in Economics
...IQ tests, males and females score pretty much alike. Since this is true, why do women seem less creative? Many social scientists are convinced that the reasons are cultural. Women, they say, learn early in life that female accomplishment brings few rewards. In some cases, women cannot be creative because they are discriminated against. In other instances, a woman's creativity may well be blunted by fear of nonconformity, failure or even success itself (see following story). Unlike men, Kagan says, women are trained to have strong anxiety about being wrong...