What Beads Mean
Photograph
What Beads Mean
ca. 1955
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 5/16 × 9 1/8 in. (18.6 × 23.2 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0080
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (the Retarded) 10/61 12) WHAT BEADS MEAN to a retarded child is the test \ which the Flower-Fifth Avenue's psychologist puts to \ little Eileen. She was able to string then easily but quickly \ lost interest and stared into space. Such short spans of attention are typical of retarded youngsters. After many tests \ it was established that Eileen was severely retarded. Age 8, \ she had the mental age of 3. \ Credit: Reprinted by permission of the publishers from \ the book "Retarded Children Can Be Helped" by Cornell Capa \ and Maya Pines, Copyright 1957 by Channel press, Inc.Photographs Copyright 1954 and 1955, Time, Inc.
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