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1 Crime & Delinquency 1 (1955)

handle is hein.journals/cadq1 and id is 1 raw text is: NPPA NATIONAL PROBATION AND PAROLE ASSOCIATION Journal Volume 1 July 1955 Number 1 Reading Retardation and Delinquency MELVIN ROMAN, JOSEPH B. MARGOLIN, AND CARMI HARARI* Bureau of Mental Health Services, Court of Domestic Relations, New York City S OME time ago a survey conducted at the Treatment Clinic of the New York City Children's Court re- vealed that almost all of the children there manifested a reading retardation of two or more years. Very few had re- ceived anything resembling adequate educational evaluation prior to their referral to the clinic. Many of them could have been treated, perhaps more productively, in a nonauthoritative agency had the court been aware of the significance of their learning difficulties. Obviously it is poor practice to plan for the rehabilitation of school chil- dren without considering their specific educational needs. Do children fail in reading because they are truant? Or are they truant because they cannot read? Why does the delinquent child resist the learning process? * Senior psychologist, research consul- tant, and chief psychologist, respectively. Under the court's research program' established to deal specifically with the relationship between reading re- tardation and delinquency, it was found that 76 per cent of the children screened for educational problems were retarded at least two years in reading; for over half of this group, the dis- ability amounted to five years or more. This contrasts significantly with the retardation figure for the elementary and high school population as a whole, as stated in a recent national survey by Traxler, who found that approxi- mately 10 per cent of all pupils are retarded in reading. Noteworthy is the 'A phase of the Court Intake Project, a research demonstration program supported by private funds and directed by Harris B. Peck, M.D. and Molly Harrower, Ph.D. For other aspects of the Court Intake Proj - ect, see Harris B. Peck, M.D. and Morris Brick, Integration of Mental Health and Probation Services, Reappraising Crime Treatment (1953 Yearbook, National Proba- tion and Parole Association), pp. 106-123. 1

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